Have you ever wondered why different search engines give you different search results? For example, if you type Vindavoz in Yandex, the result will be as follows:
and if in Google, then like this:
The same goes for other search engines (Nigma, Bing, Yahoo, Rambler, Mail, etc.).
Why it happens? Primarily because of its search algorithms and robots that seek information. Well, it goes without saying. All search engines will not use the same principle, then there is no point in their diversity and you can use one.
Another feature of search engines is tracking your queries. Yes Yes Yes! Many popular search engines (I will refer to PS below) retain all your activity on the Internet and use it in search results. This is why the results will always be different. And it's not even about different PSs, but it also affects the operating system and the "machine" (/, etc.) with which you are looking.
Therefore, even if you tell your friend, "Type Vindavoz in your Yandex and follow the third link," then his third link will most likely be not the one that is shown to you.
Is it good? On the one hand (from the side of the PS as well), yes. Indeed, in this way, the search engine learns about you (gender, place of residence, operating system, city of residence, Internet provider, browser, what you are looking for, etc.) and as a result shows exactly what is preferable for you (more precisely, your interests ) and thus the search results become more "personal".
Well, on the other hand, it also affects the delivery of specific advertisements, both on the search engine itself and on third-party sites (although a different system is involved here, but still the essence is this), which is based precisely on the data collected about you. And the very fact that data is being collected about you is also not very pleasant.
However, there are search engines that are private and do not collect any information about you. Therefore, the result in them will always be the same on different browsers, systems, computers, and regardless of the elapsed time of use.
So, the first safe search engine is
Not a bad anonymous search engine. If you want, you can change the theme (there is an icon in the right corner), as well as configure other parameters at your discretion (region, language, options for opening links, hot keys, etc.) and for yourself:
The search engine uses results from Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha (no emphasis on personal data) and our own crawler.
What else is remarkable about it?
The search engine works with many similar phrases and their constructions: calculator, unit converter, size of territories, known dates, people, unit converter, whois, etc.
The essence of this search engine is that it searches through popular search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo and even DuckDuckGo), but with the peculiarity that it forwards your request to its secure servers, and they already return the result in the system that was chosen , while not transferring anything of your personal to her - browser, etc.
It turns out that you are using the same Google, but without saving your data.
Another feature of this search engine is that it can be installed as an add-on (extension) for the browser, which will provide its own protected search string at the top
When using anonymous search engines, remember one thing - yes, they protect you from most tracking methods, but all this stops when you go to the found pages, and there you can be followed by the owners of other sites and their scripts
Whether or not to use such private search engines is up to you, but you still need to know about them.
we will continue the master class on anonymous and non-persecuting search engines.
everything is clear on Google, on Russian bottled products too, so we are discussing really serious resources
great article on fresh data, just copying.
DuckDuckGo
At one time, DuckDuckGo was presented as an "anti-spyware" alternative to Google, but even a quick analysis using tools like lightbeam (an extension for Mozilla Firefox) shows that it does not respect your privacy that much. The reason for this was his business model, which relies heavily on commissions from partners. That is, it is not a fact that he manages to make money without spying on users.
In addition, DuckDuckGo uses Amazon cloud services as its infrastructure. While this decision is technically justified, it still raises questions given that Amazon is the main provider of cloud services for the CIA and has already obeyed the US government's order (in violation of the first amendment) to remove Wikileaks from the network ... In short, with DuckDuckGo everything is not as clean as they want to show you.
Ixquick is a privacy alternative that offers a DuckDuckGo-like interface. He was inspired by Google, but he is not a search engine in the literal sense of the word, but an aggregator of results from other search engines. This approach is, of course, interesting, but it is difficult to call it a real alternative. It relies on other search engines and does not contribute in any way to creating a world where Google can be dispensed with.
In addition, Qwant, the “made in France” search engine, is one of the systems that do not seek to pry into your personal life. Unlike Ixquick, it is a real search engine and uses its own search technology. However, even six months ago, he hardly valued privacy more than DuckDuckGo and even used Google Analytics to measure traffic. And this, you see, is a very controversial move if you want to protect the privacy of users.
But after people drew their attention to this issue (by the way, your humble servant, as well as many hackers, had a hand in this), they nevertheless fixed themselves and installed an alternative to Google Analytics with anonymous proxy servers (they become intermediaries in user interaction with the Internet), which allowed everyone to search the Internet and social networks without transferring any data to Facebook and Twitter.
Like DuckDuckgo, Qwant strives to establish itself in the growing niche of privacy-friendly resources and takes the technical side of things seriously. To do this, they install a proxy (as a result, users can conduct all requests completely anonymously), introduce an autonomous and independent from Google system for assessing traffic and use logs (the information that remains on the server after a visit) that does not in any way associate your IP with search queries. ... It turns out that even if the authorities confiscate the equipment, they will not be able to recover your IP address search history. Some hackers criticized Qwant for not being too accurate in protecting users' personal data, representatives of the search engine have established contacts with them and are actively developing cooperation to improve their existing technologies. In short, their efforts show that privacy is taken seriously. And this is the right approach, because in this area Google will not be able to outshine Qwant, and DuckDuckGo did not take things seriously and in the end will pay dearly for it.
Finally, among the alternatives to Google, it is worth noting the technology being developed by YaCy, a decentralized search engine. It is not for everyone, but in terms of infrastructure, we see a truly innovative approach. The flip side of the coin of a decentralized system is that its effectiveness depends on the number of users (such as the speed of downloading files over the P2P protocol), in contrast to the centralized systems mentioned above. So far, this technology is, of course, interesting, but it remains the lot of nerds. Be that as it may, it is quite possible to imagine the re-decentralization of the Internet, within the framework of which such a technological approach would acquire a completely different meaning. In general, this is the only way out of the total control society that is forming before our eyes, and therefore YaCy deserves our support in any case.
Is Google a hard drug?
Nevertheless, it will be very difficult for a mere mortal to make such a transition, because everyone has long and irrevocably been accustomed to Google. Personally, I try to use another search engine in parallel with Google more often, just like taking a puff on an e-cigarette to smoke less real ones. When I need to find some "sensitive" information that is somehow related to my journalistic investigations, I usually use only Qwant and Ixquick, or I use a whole technological arsenal to achieve complete anonymity on the network. But, as you can imagine, it is not available to the average user.
Fabrice Epelboin is an entrepreneur and lecturer at the Institute for Political Studies.
Original publication: Les alternatives pour ceux qui veulent se passer de Google
As expected, Google took first place in the world ranking. It accounts for more than 70% of search queries from residents from all over the world. Moreover, a third of all google.com traffic comes from US citizens. In addition, Google is the most visited website in the world. The average daily duration of use of the search engine Google is 9 minutes.
The advantage of the Google search engine is the absence of unnecessary elements on the page. Just a search bar and a company logo. Chip are animated pictures and browser games dedicated to popular and local holidays.
2. Bing
Bing - search engine from Microsoft, leading its history since 2009. From that moment on, it became an obligatory attribute of smartphones running on Windows. Bing is also minimalist - in addition to the header listing all Microsoft products, the page contains only the search bar and the name of the system. Bing is most popular in the USA (31%), China (18%) and Germany (6%).
3. Yahoo!
The third place was assigned to one of the oldest search engines - Yahu. The majority of users also live in the United States (24%). One gets the impression that the rest of the world deliberately avoids the help of search robots ... The search engine is also popular in India, Indonesia, Taiwan and the UK. In addition to the search bar, the Yahoo! a weather forecast for your region is offered, as well as world trends in the form of a news feed.
4. Baidu
A Chinese search engine that has gained notoriety in Russia. Due to the aggressive policy and lack of translation into Russian or English, the extensions of this search engine are perceived as viruses. It is very difficult to remove them completely and get rid of pop-up windows with hieroglyphs. However, this site is fourth in the world by attendance. 92% of its audience are Chinese citizens.
5. AOL
AOL is an American search engine whose name stands for America Online. Its popularity is significantly lower than that of previous systems. Its dawn was in the 90s and 00s. Almost 70% of AOL's audience is from the United States.
6. Ask.com
This search engine, dating back to 1995, has quite a few unusual interface... She perceives all requests as questions and offers options for answers in accordance with the search results. This is somewhat similar to the Answers.Mail service. However, the results do not include answers from amateurs, but full-fledged articles. Over the past year, the site has lost about 50 positions in the world ranking of the most popular Internet resources and currently occupies only 104th place.
7. Excite
This search engine is unremarkable and looks like a lot of other sites. It offers users a ton of services (such as News, Mail, Weather, Travel, etc.) The interface of the site also evokes memories of the web of the 90s and, presumably, has changed little since then.
8. DuckDuckGo
The developers immediately warn that this search engine does not track your actions online. These days, this is a powerful argument when choosing a search engine. The site is designed in a modern manner, uses bright colors and funny pictures. Unlike other search engines, the "duck search engine" is translated into Russian. Over the past year, the site won back about 400 positions and in March 2017. is on the 504th line of the Alexa popularity ranking.
9. WolframAlpha
A distinctive feature of this search is the variety of auxiliary services designed for queries related to certain knowledge. That is, in the search results you will not see links to posts in social networks or articles in the yellow press. You will be offered specific numbers and proven facts in the form of a single document... This browser is perfect for schoolchildren and students.
10. Yandex
The most popular search engine in Russia and the CIS countries. In addition, about 3% of the site's audience is from Germany. The site is notable for a large number of services for all occasions (music, radio, public transport schedules, real estate, translator, etc.). The resource also offers a large selection of individual site design, as well as customizing widgets "for yourself"... Yandex ranks 31st in the world in terms of popularity, having lost 11 positions over the past year.
The best search engines on the Internet. Internet search engine – these are special search programs installed on a whole complex of specialized machines. And in a simple way - this is the same site with a set of programs, only on a special search engine (server). It is with the help of search engines that you find all the information you need. There are a lot of search engines.
1. What is an Internet search engine
2. Popular search engines in our country
3. Popular search engines abroad
4. Unusual search engines
5. How to properly search for information on the Internet
The most best nsearch systems in our country:
http://www.yandex.ru
http://www.google.com
http://www.aport.ru
http://www.rambler.ru/
http://go.mail.ru
http://www.webalta.ru/
The most unloved and intrusive search engine.
Popular search engines abroad
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.alltheweb.com
http: // www. bing.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.excite.com
http://www.lycos.com
http://www.mamma.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.dmoz.com
http://www.hotbot.com
http://www.dogpile.com
http://www.netscape.com
http://www.msn.com
http://www.webcrawler.com
http://www.jayde.com
http://www.aol.com
http://www.euroseek.com
http://www.teoma.com
http://www.about.com
http://www.ixquick.com
http://www.lookle.com
http://www.metaeureka.com
http://www.searchspot.com
http://www.slider.com
http://www.allthesites.com
http://www.clickey.com
http://www.galaxy.com
http://brainysearch.com
http://www.orura.com
Each country has its own popular search engines.
Unusual search engines
- DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com/) is a hybrid search engine with privacy policy of the user and his searches.
- TinEye (http://tineye.com/) is a search engine that specializes in finding images on the Internet. It has recently lost its relevance after Google introduced the same function in its image search.
- Guénon (http://www.genon.ru/) is a search engine that collects and creates content on its website.
In almost every search engine, in addition to the search box, there are links to the most popular news sites, and sites of a certain subject.
How to properly search for information on the Internet
Each search engine has its own algorithms (rules) for finding information.
In order to find some information on the Internet through a search engine, you must enter in the search field inquiry... If you enter any one word, then for this request you will be given thousands of links to sites in which this word is mentioned.
Therefore, it is necessary to enter as specific a query as possible, consisting of two, three or more phrases.
Let's look at an example of a search engine query Yandex..
Let's say you want to search for information on buying a computer. If you write one word in the search box “ A computer", Then you will be given 133 million answers
It is necessary to ask a more specific request. It is better to indicate which computer you want to buy and where (in which city).
Then the search engine will give you much fewer answers to your query.
The search engine does not really care what letters you enter your query in - large or small.
Yandex distinguishes between nouns and adjectives, but completely ignores endings.
He is also completely indifferent to cases, plurals and the like.
In order for the search to be more precise, you need to put the query in quotes or put an exclamation mark in front of the word.
Now look at the same query, but without the exclamation marks.
Do you see the difference? With exclamation marks, the number of responses is not 2 million, but 186 thousand.
If you put an exclamation mark in front of a word with a capital letter, then you will be given answers in which this very word is found with a capital letter.
If the word is in the nominative case, and you need information on exactly such a word, and exactly the way you wrote it, then put two exclamation marks in front of this word. For example: !!Ball .
The search will give you answers for this particular word " Ball"The way you wrote it. Not " the ball", not " balls", And with a capital letter.
If you write a phrase with the word " on", Yandex will ignore" on". For example: " on the shelf". The search will be performed only by the word " shelf ».
In order for him to take it into account and not ignore it, it is necessary before the word “ on"Put a plus sign -" + on ».
Each search engine has its own search algorithm, so if you use a specific search engine and want to learn how to correctly compose queries, then you just need to type in the search box " search rules inGoogle " or " Yandex search rules », Follow the link to answer your request and read the necessary information.
The search engine is one of the key levels of the Internet along with the content and the browser. "Yandex" -search or similar systems ("Google", "Bing", DuckDuckGo and others) allow the user to search for information on the World Wide Web by formulating a request.
The job of a search engine is to find for this query (keyword or phrase) all documents, pages, videos, that is, all content.
What is the best search engine? Are there any alternative options other than Google and Yandex? Which Internet search engine is more suitable for crawling English-language sources or, for example, music? This is exactly what will be discussed in the article.
Rating: market leaders
If we talk about the world as a whole, then "Google" -search is the most popular search engine. The corporation occupies almost 70% of the market. The second position in the rating is occupied by Bing (share - 12.26%). The Baidu system is fighting for the second place (6.48% as of September 2015). From time to time they change places.
So, for example, in 2014, "forces" were distributed differently: the first place was occupied by Google -search with 68.69%, the second - by Baidu (17.7%), the third - by Bing with a market capitalization of 6, 22%.
But the global data is very generalized. What is the best search engine?
In China, for example, a very small percentage of the population crawls with Google, most of them use the domestic Soso system. In South Korea, most of the residents use their own development - the Internet search engine Naver. True, in the past few months the number of requests in this system has begun to decline rapidly.
In Japan and Taiwan, users are more likely to use Yahoo!
Rating: Russian-speaking systems
What is the best search engine? In Russia, the ranking of search engines is not at all similar to the global one. The market leader in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet is Yandex, which is used by more than 55% of users.
Google is in second place with a score of 37.6%. According to the LiveInternet service, the coverage of Russian-language search queries on the World Wide Web was distributed as follows:
- Universal search engines: Google (37.6%), Bing (0.3%), Yahoo! (0.1%).
- English-speaking and international (AskJeeves, for example).
- Russian-language search systems: Yandex (56.2%), Mail (5.3%), Rambler (0.5%).
DuckDuckGo
We should start talking about alternative search engines with the DuckDuckGo search engine. It is a fairly well-known and widespread open source system. DuckDuckGo's servers are located in the United States of America. The search results are quite extensive, since the system uses not only its own algorithms, but also the results of some other sources, for example, "Wikipedia", the search engine "Bing" and Yahoo!
The DuckDuckGo search engine ensures maximum security of the user's personal information, privacy and confidentiality. The system does not collect any data about users, does not store history and limits the use of cookies as much as possible.
The difference with DuckDuckGo is that this system does not personalize search results, as other systems do. In "Google" or "Yandex", for example, the user sees only the information that is consistent with his preferences. But DuckDuckGo creates a real picture and allows you to get rid of intrusive specific ads. The search service easily searches for information in foreign languages, while Yandex and Google by default give preference to Russian-language sources, even if the request is entered in English, German or another language.
You can customize the interface in the system: you can change the color scheme, fonts, links and other parameters in just a few clicks.
This search engine is still far from the giant Google, but the duck is evolving, so it is quite possible that in the future DuckDuckGo will take one of the leading positions. The team has created an excellent product that provides anonymous, fast and functional searches that deserve the user's attention.
NotEvil
It is a system that searches the anonymous Tor network. The search engine is preinstalled in the browser of the same name. Why is notEvil better? It "goes" where Google or Yandex search engine cannot reach. In general, there are a lot of resources on the Tor network that cannot be visited on the "regular" (law-abiding) Internet. This is a kind of a site within the network with its own social platforms, torrent trackers, media, blogs, shopping malls, forums, libraries, and so on.
By the way, notEvil is not the only search engine of its kind. There is also Look, which is available by default in the same Tor browser, and TORCH is one of the oldest search engines on the anonymous web.
YaCy
The free YaCy search engine is a completely different approach to organizing searches on the World Wide Web. The system works on the P2P principle. This means that each computer on which the module is installed independently scans the Internet, and then all the results obtained are collected in a single database that can be used by all YaCy users.
The system is completely independent, autonomous, and ensures the anonymity of each user. YaCy is suitable for supporters of an open internet that is not influenced by large corporations and government agencies.
In everyday life, the search engine is not yet very useful, but in the long term it is a worthy alternative to Google, even from the point of view of organizing the information search process.
Pipl
Pipl is a system designed to search for information about a specific person. The developers claim that search engine algorithms search for people more efficiently than Google or Yandex, which are widespread all over the world.
The priority sources are social media profiles, comments, lists of participants, databases where various data about people are published, for example, databases of court decisions. But there is also a drawback. Russian databases are not available for Pipl, so it will only be useful for finding information about US citizens.
FindSounds
What is the best search engine? If you need to find music or sounds, then, of course, FindSounds is the best one. This is a specialized search engine that has a list of tags. Here you can select the desired audio file format or its quality. All search results are available for download.
Wolfram | Alpha
This system does not give out the pages on which there is the information the user needs, but the finished result. For example, maps, graphs, tables, short answers. The service is perfectly suited for calculating data and searching for specific facts. The search engine does not yet understand all requests, but it is constantly evolving.
With Wolfram | Alpha, it is convenient, for example, to compare parameters for setting up a camera, smartphone or laptop. Also calculate the level of alcohol in the blood (the system asks the user for weight and height, the amount drunk, the time, and then reports how much alcohol will be completely removed from the body).
The tool can convert shoe and clothing sizes, count calories, watch currency rates, or tune a musical instrument.
Dogpile
Dogpile displays results from all common search engines at once. The service uses an improved algorithm and, as the developers assure, generates the best results on the Internet. Also, there are few advertisements here. You can try using Dogpile if the information you need is not in any way in the standard Google or Yandex.
BoardReader
This system searches for information on forums, polls, Q&A services, social communities, narrowing the search field to social platforms. You can set filters: language and publication date, site name, and the like.
The search engine can be useful for advertising professionals who are interested in the opinion of the audience.
Finally
Alternative search engines are often fleeting. They appear as quickly as they die. Most of the alternative systems today specialize in some narrow niche or test the original algorithm in the formation of search results.
In the context of describing alternative search engines, the criterion "better" does not mean "better at all". Each of the services listed above gives a specific user something that is not available in Google or Yandex. In any case, it is interesting and useful to every user to get acquainted with alternative options (against the background of the fact that the system seems to be practically monopolized by the search giants).
