Hello, dear readers of the blog site. , then its few users had enough of their own bookmarks. However, as you remember, it happened exponentially, and very soon it became more difficult to navigate in all its diversity.
Then directories appeared (Yahu, Dmoz and others), in which their authors added and sorted into categories various sites. This immediately made life easier for the then, not yet very numerous users of the global network. Many of these directories are still alive today.
But after a while, the size of their databases became so large that the developers first thought about creating a search inside them, and then about creating an automated indexing system for all Internet content to make it available to everyone.
The main search engines of the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet
As you can imagine, this idea was realized with resounding success, but, however, everything turned out well only for a handful of selected companies that managed to not disappear on the Internet. Almost all the search engines that appeared on the first wave have now either disappeared, or vegetate, or were bought by more successful competitors.
The search system is a very complex and, importantly, a very resource-intensive mechanism (meaning not only material resources, but also human ones). Behind the outwardly simple, or its ascetic counterpart from Google, are thousands of employees, hundreds of thousands of servers, and many billions of investments that are necessary for this colossus to continue to work and remain competitive.
Entering this market now and starting everything from scratch is more of a utopia than a real business project. For example, one of the richest corporations in the world, Microsoft, has been trying to gain a foothold in the search market for decades, and only now their Bing search engine is slowly starting to justify their expectations. And before that there was a whole series of failures and failures.
What can we say about entering this market without any special financial influences. For example, our domestic search engine Nigma has a lot of useful and innovative things in its arsenal, but their traffic is thousands of times inferior to the leaders of the Russian market. For example, take a look at the Yandex daily audience:
In this regard, we can assume that the list of the main (best and most successful) search engines of the Runet and the entire Internet has already been formed, and the whole intrigue lies only in who will eventually devour whom, well, or how their percentage will be distributed if they all survive and stay afloat.
Russian search engine market is very well visible, and here, probably, two or three main players and a couple of secondary ones can be distinguished. In general, a rather unique situation has developed in Runet, which, as I understand it, has been repeated only in two more countries in the world.
I'm talking about the fact that the Google search engine, having come to Russia in 2004, has not yet been able to take the lead. In fact, they tried to buy Yandex around this period, but something didn’t work out there, and now “our Russia”, together with the Czech Republic and China, are the places where the almighty Google, if not defeated, then, in any case, met with serious resistance.
In fact, see the current state of affairs among best search engines in runet anyone can. It will be enough to paste this URL into the address bar of your browser:
http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/ru/searches.html?period=month;total=yes
The fact is that most of them use .
After entering the given Url, you will see a picture that is not very attractive and presentable, but it reflects the essence of the matter well. Pay attention to the top five search engines from which sites in Russian receive traffic:
Yes, of course, not all resources with Russian-language content are hosted in this zone. There are also SU, and the Russian Federation, and common areas such as COM or NET are full of Internet projects focused on Runet, but still, the sample is quite representative.
This dependency can be drawn in a more colorful way, as, for example, someone online did for his presentation:
It doesn't change the essence. There are a couple of leaders and a few very, very far behind search engines. By the way, I have already written about many of them. Sometimes it is quite entertaining to plunge into the history of success or, conversely, delve into the reasons for the failures of once promising search engines.
So, in order of importance for Russia and the Runet as a whole, I will list them and give them brief characteristics:
Google search has already become a household name for many inhabitants of the planet - you can read about that at the link. I liked the “results translation” option in this search engine, when you received answers from all over the world, but in your own language, but now, unfortunately, it is not available (at least on google.ru).
Also, recently I have been puzzled by the quality of their issuance (Search Engine Result Page). Personally, I always first use the search engine of the Runet mirror (there is, well, I got used to it) and only if I don’t find an intelligible answer there, I turn to Google.
Usually their issuance made me happy, but lately it has only puzzled me - sometimes such nonsense comes out. It's possible that their struggle to increase their PPC revenue and constantly shuffling SERPs to discredit Seo promotion could backfire. In any case, this search engine has a competitor in RuNet, and even what one.
I think that hardly anyone will specifically go to Go.mail.ru to search in Runet. Therefore, traffic on entertainment projects from this search engine can be significantly more than ten percent. Owners of such projects should pay attention to this system.
However, apart from the prominent leaders in the search engine market of the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet, there are several other players whose share is quite low, but nevertheless the very fact of their existence makes me say a few words about them.
Runet search engines from the second echelon
Internet-wide search engines
By and large, on the scale of the entire Internet, there is only one serious player - Google. This is the undisputed leader, but he still has some competition.
First, it's still the same bing, which, for example, has very good positions in the US market, especially considering that its engine is also used on all Yahoo services (almost a third of the entire US search market).
Well, and secondly, due to the huge share that users from China make up in the total number of Internet users, their main search engine called Baidu wedged into the distribution of places on the world Olympus. He was born in 2000 and now his share is about 80% of the entire national audience in China.
It is difficult to say anything more intelligible about Baidu, but on the Internet there are judgments that the places in his Top are occupied not only by the most relevant sites, but also by those who paid for it (directly to the search engine, and not to the Seo office). Of course, this applies primarily to commercial issuance.
In general, looking at the statistics, it becomes clear why Google easily goes there to worsen its issuance in exchange for increasing profits from contextual advertising. In fact, they are not afraid of the outflow of users, because in most cases they have nowhere to go and nowhere to go. This situation is somewhat sad, but let's see what happens next.
By the way, in order to make life even more difficult for optimizers, and maybe to maintain the peace of mind of users of this search engine, Google has recently been using encryption when transmitting requests from users' browsers to the search string. Soon it will no longer be possible to see in the statistics of visitor counters what queries users from Google came to you for.
Of course, in addition to the search engines voiced in this publication, there are more than one thousand others - regional, specialized, exotic, etc. It will not be possible to try to list and describe them all within the framework of one article, and, probably, it is not necessary. Let's say a few words about how easy it is to create a search engine and how not easy and not cheap to keep it up to date.
The vast majority of systems work on similar principles (read about that and about) and pursue the same goal - to give users an answer to their question. Moreover, this answer should be relevant (corresponding to the question), exhaustive and, which is not unimportant, relevant (of the first freshness).
Solving this problem is not so easy, especially considering that the search engine will need to analyze the content of billions of Internet pages on the fly, weed out unnecessary ones, and form a list (output) from the rest, where the most appropriate answers to the user's question will first go.
This extremely complex task is solved by preliminary collection of information from these pages using various indexing robots. They collect links from already visited pages and load information from them into the search engine database. There are text-indexing bots (normal and fast bots that live on news and frequently updated resources so that the most recent data is always presented in the results).
In addition, there are robots indexing images (for their subsequent output to), favicons, site mirrors (for their subsequent comparison and possible gluing), bots that check the performance of Internet pages that users or through tools for webmasters (here you can read about, and) .
The indexing process itself and the subsequent process of updating index databases are quite time-consuming. Although Google does this much faster than its competitors, at least Yandex, which takes a week or two to do this (read about).
Usually, the search engine breaks the text content of a web page into separate words, which leads to the basic foundations, so that later it will be possible to give correct answers to questions asked in different morphological forms. All unnecessary body kit in the form of Html tags, spaces, etc. things are removed, and the remaining words are sorted alphabetically and next to them their position in this document is indicated.
This shnyaga is called a reverse index and allows you to search no longer on web pages, but on structured data located on the servers of the search engine.
The number of such servers at Yandex (which searches mainly only on Russian-language sites and a bit on Ukrainian and Turkish) is in the tens or even hundreds of thousands, and Google (which searches in hundreds of languages) is in the millions.
Many servers have copies that serve both to increase the safety of documents and help to increase the speed of processing a request (due to load balancing). Estimate the cost of maintaining this entire economy.
The user's request will be directed by the load balancer to the server segment that is currently least loaded. Then the analysis of the region is carried out, from where the user of the search engine sent his request, and its morphological analysis is done. If a similar request was recently entered in the search line, then the data from the cache is slipped to the user so as not to load the server once again.
If the request has not yet been cached, then it is passed to the area where the index base of the search engine is located. The response will be a list of all web pages that have at least some relation to the request. Not only direct occurrences are taken into account, but also other morphological forms, as well as, etc. things.
Them needs to be sorted and at this stage, the algorithm (artificial intelligence) comes into play. In fact, the user's request is multiplied due to all possible options for its interpretation and answers to many requests are searched simultaneously (due to the use of query language operators, some of which are available to ordinary users).
As a rule, in the issue there is one page from each site (sometimes more). are now very complex and take into account many factors. In addition, for their adjustment, and are used, which manually evaluate the reference sites, which allows you to adjust the operation of the algorithm as a whole.
In general, it is clear that the matter is dark. You can talk about this for a long time, but even so it is understood that user satisfaction with a search engine is achieved, oh, how not easy. And there will always be those who do not like something, like, for example, you and me, dear readers.
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Until recently, finding the necessary information on the World Wide Web was not so easy. But, thanks to the rapid development and the emergence of new search engines, this process has become much more convenient and faster. In our today's review of the 10 best services for searching for various kinds of data that are able to find everything you need in the depths of the Internet.
1. Internet search engine - Bing
Bing is a well-known Internet search engine that was created in June 2009. This service is available in 40 languages. Its monthly number of unique visitors is approximately 350 million.
2. Metasearch Internet system - AOL Search.com
AOL Search.com is an Internet metasearch engine that was founded in the United States of America in 1985. The monthly number of visitors to this service is approximately 75 million people. Tim Armstrong is the CEO.
3. Internet search engine - DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is an open source Internet search engine that was launched in 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg. The company's headquarters is located in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The number of unique visitors using DuckDuckGo is about 13 million per month.
4. Internet search engine - Ask.com
Ask.com is an Internet search system, the main feature of which is the search for answers to questions. The service was founded in June 1996 in Berkeley, California by Garrett Gruner and David Wharton. The monthly number of unique visitors to this service is approximately 145 million people.
5. Internet search engine - Google
Google is the most famous Internet search engine headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States of America. The company was founded on September 4, 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Mikhailovich Brin. Its monthly number of unique visitors is about 1.100.000.000 people.
6. Metasearch Internet system - MyWebSearch.com
MyWebSearch.com is an internet metasearch engine ranked #73 on the list of the most popular websites. Its monthly number of unique visitors is approximately 60 million.
7. Metasearch Internet system - Infospace.com
The presented search engine was founded in 1996. Its headquarters is in Bellevue, Washington, United States. Number of unique visitors per month infospace.com is approximately 24 million people.
8. Metasearch Internet system - WebCrawler.com
WebCrawler.com is a meta search engine powered by Yahoo and Google. The company was established in April 1994. Its monthly number of unique visitors is approximately 65 million.
9. Metasearch Internet system - Info.com
info.com is a metasearch engine headquartered in London, the capital of Great Britain. Info.com has approximately 13 million unique visitors per month.
10. Internet search engine - Yahoo
Internet search engine called - Yahoo, which was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Phil. The company's CEO is Marissa Mayer. Its monthly number of unique visitors is approximately 300 million people. The service is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States of America.
And lovers of mobile devices and computer technologies will certainly be interested in looking at
At first glance, it may seem that only Yandex can be better than Google, and even that is not a fact. These companies invest huge sums in innovation and development. Does anyone really have a chance not only to compete with the leaders, but also to win? Lifehacker's answer: "Yes!" There are several search engines that have succeeded. Let's look at our heroes.
What is it
It is a fairly well-known open source search engine. The servers are located in the USA. In addition to its own robot, the search engine uses results from other sources: Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wikipedia, Wolfram|Alpha.
The better
DuckDuckGo positions itself as the ultimate privacy and privacy search. The system does not collect any data about the user, does not store logs (no search history), the use of cookies is as limited as possible.
DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information from users. This is our privacy policy.
Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo
Why do you need this
All major search engines try to personalize search results based on data about the person in front of the monitor. This phenomenon is called "filter bubble": the user sees only those results that are consistent with his preferences or that the system considers as such.
DuckDuckGo forms an objective picture that does not depend on your past behavior on the Web, and gets rid of Google and Yandex thematic advertising based on your requests. DuckDuckGo makes it easy to search for information in foreign languages: Google and Yandex prefer Russian-language sites by default, even if the query is entered in another language.
What is it
"" is a Russian metasearch engine developed by Moscow State University graduates Viktor Lavrenko and Vladimir Chernyshov. It searches for Google, Bing, Yandex and other indexes, and also has its own search algorithm.
The better
Searching through the indexes of all major search engines allows you to generate relevant results. In addition, "Nigma" divides the results into several thematic groups (clusters) and prompts the user to narrow the search field, discarding unnecessary or prioritizing. Thanks to the "Mathematics" and "Chemistry" modules, you can solve mathematical problems and request the results of chemical reactions right in the search bar.
Why do you need this
Eliminates the need to search for the same query in different search engines. The cluster system makes it easy to manipulate search results. For example, "Nigma" collects results from online stores in a separate cluster. If you do not intend to buy something, then simply exclude this group. If you select the "English-language sites" cluster, you will receive search results in English only. Modules "Mathematics" and "Chemistry" will help schoolchildren.
Unfortunately, the project is currently not being developed, as the developers have shifted their activity to the Vietnamese market. Nevertheless, "Nigma" is not only not outdated, but in some things it still outperforms Google. Let's hope that development resumes.
What is it
not Evil is a system that searches the anonymous Tor network. To use it, you need to go to this network, for example, by launching a specialized browser with the same name. not Evil is not the only search engine of its kind. There is LOOK (default search in the Tor browser, accessible from the regular Internet) or TORCH (one of the oldest search engines on the Tor network) and others. We settled on not Evil because of the unambiguous allusion to Google itself (just look at the start page).
The better
He is looking for where Google, Yandex and other search engines are denied access in principle.
Why do you need this
There are many resources on the Tor network that cannot be found on the law-abiding Internet. And as the authorities tighten control over the contents of the Web, their number will grow. Tor is a kind of Network within the Network: with its social networks, torrent trackers, media, marketplaces, blogs, libraries, and so on.
YaCy
What is it
YaCy is a decentralized search engine that works on the principle of P2P networks. Each computer on which the main software module is installed scans the Internet on its own, that is, it is an analogue of a search robot. The results obtained are collected in a common database, which is used by all YaCy participants.
The better
It is difficult to say here whether this is better or worse, since YaCy is a completely different approach to organizing search. The lack of a single server and owner company makes the results completely independent of anyone's preferences. The autonomy of each node excludes censorship. YaCy is capable of searching the deep web and non-indexed public networks.
Why do you need this
If you are a supporter of open source software and a free Internet that is not influenced by government agencies and large corporations, then YaCy is your choice. It can also be used to organize searches within a corporate or other autonomous network. And although YaCy is not very useful in everyday life, it is a worthy alternative to Google in terms of the search process.
Pipl
What is it
Pipl is a system designed to search for information about a specific person.
The better
The authors of Pipl claim that their specialized algorithms search more efficiently than "regular" search engines. In particular, priority sources of information are social media profiles, comments, lists of participants and various databases where information about people is published, such as databases of court decisions. Pipl's leadership in this area is confirmed by Lifehacker.com, TechCrunch and other publications.
Why do you need this
If you need to find information about a person living in the US, then Pipl will be much more efficient than Google. Databases of Russian courts, apparently, are inaccessible to the search engine. Therefore, he does not cope so well with the citizens of Russia.
What is it
Another specialized search engine. Searches for various sounds (house, nature, cars, people, and so on) in open sources. The service does not support requests in Russian, but there is an impressive list of Russian-language tags that you can search for.
The better
In the issuance of only sounds and nothing more. In the search settings, you can set the desired format and sound quality. All found sounds are available for download. There is a search for sounds by pattern.
Why do you need this
If you need to quickly find the sound of a musket shot, the blow of a sucking woodpecker, or the cry of Homer Simpson, then this service is for you. And I chose this only from the available Russian-language queries. In English, the spectrum is even wider. But seriously, a specialized service implies a specialized audience. But will it come in handy for you too?
The life of alternative search engines is often fleeting. Lifehacker asked the former CEO of the Ukrainian branch of Yandex, Sergey Petrenko, about the long-term prospects for such projects.
As for the fate of alternative search engines, it is simple: to be very niche projects with a small audience, therefore, without clear commercial prospects, or, conversely, with the complete clarity of their absence.
If you look at the examples in the article, you can see that such search engines either specialize in a narrow but in-demand niche, which, perhaps only so far, has not grown enough to be noticeable on the radars of Google or Yandex, or are testing an original hypothesis in ranking, which is not yet applicable in conventional search.
For example, if a Tor search suddenly turns out to be in demand, that is, at least a percentage of the Google audience will need the results from there, then, of course, ordinary search engines will begin to solve the problem of how to find them and show them to the user. If the behavior of the audience shows that a significant proportion of users in a significant number of queries seem to have more relevant results, data without taking into account factors that depend on the user, then Yandex or Google will begin to give such results.
"To be better" in the context of this article does not mean "to be better at everything". Yes, in many aspects our heroes are far from Google and Yandex (even far from Bing). But each of these services gives the user something that the giants of the search industry cannot offer.
Programs for searching information on the Internet.
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Directory of Moscow enterprises Azimut 1.0.4 is an application optimized for any user. The application includes a structured database of organizations for Moscow, as well as a telephone and address database of enterprises.
Free 
vkontakte.ru Audio 1.0 is a convenient application for searching and downloading mp3 files from the vkontakte.ru service The vkontakte.ru Audio application is completely free and offers only voluntary donations of 1 - 2 WMZ to the author on a webmoney wallet: Z195735503467
Free 
VKontakte.DJ 3.40 is a handy application that will allow you to download music and videos from the VKontakte network. The Vkontakte.DJ application allows you to download individual files or entire albums.
Free 
Torrent Searcher 9.0 RC1 is a search engine application that searches and downloads from Torrent networks. The Torrent Searcher application helps you quickly find music, graphics, movies, programs or any other files on Fasttrack, Ares, OpenFT or Gnutella networks.
Free 
ListTV 3.8.9.5 is an application that provides a quality TV list view with a choice of days of the week or a specific channel. The ListTV application will help you to see what broadcasts and on what channels are being conducted and what this or that channel will broadcast at the specified time.
Free 
Jobee 1.0.0.788 is a convenient and high-quality player that will provide you with comfortable listening to a large number of Internet radio stations or audio podcasts. Also, the application will help you watch Internet TV, read RSS feeds, as well as find and read a lot of books.
Free 
Internet Links 53.0 is an application with a database of snares to web pages with the most interesting information. The Internet Links app contains over 10,600 links.
Free 
FREE Music Downloader Studio 2 build 2.2.4 is a convenient application for downloading, searching or listening to MP3 files contained on such portals as Best-Mp3.Ru, TutMp3.Net, Zaycev.Net, MuzCafe.Net, Myzuka.Ru and MuzGruz. Ru.
Free 
Etxt Antiplagiarism 2.0.37 is an application for evaluating the uniqueness of text and searching for plagiarism on the web. The Etxt Antiplagiarism application will help you efficiently and quickly check any text for uniqueness in relation to other sites.
Free 
Auto TGP Explorer 3.14a is a free application for easy viewing of photo galleries from erotic content sites. The Auto TGP Explorer application analyzes the content of the specified site and sorts links to its photo galleries.
Free 
Vkontakte Audio Downloader 2.0 will help users who are fans of the site VKontakte.ru or who like the music that is available there.
Free 
Robot-Damaku 0.0.2 will help you collect e-mail and web addresses from the Internet. The Robot-Damaku program can bypass most of the traps, fake address generators, tricks and other defenses that are aimed at preventing the extraction of information from web pages. Most of the addresses on the Internet pages are in a protected or encoded state from being processed by e-mail search engines, using the "anti-anti-spam" function in the robot, you can train to receive, decode or remove most of the protection from addresses and immediately add them to your database.
Free 
IPNetInfo is designed to view information about an IP address, e-mail or phone. Takes information from WHOIS databases on the Internet.
Paid 
SiteSputnik is a small application that is designed to search, analyze, collect and monitor information posted on the Internet. The utility allows you to get the most complete information on given queries, spending much less time searching.
Free 
LENIN INC Search Machine is a small program designed to search for almost any information on the Internet. This application works on the basis of standard search robots of the largest search engines.
Paid 
NetworkSleuth is a system for searching various files over the Internet. The program allows you to search by file name, as well as by specific format types, for example, to search for MP3 files.
Hello guys. Tell me how much time it takes you to search for files on your computer. I think a lot, and even more so if you blog on the Internet or just a photographer. In this case, a very large number of files are collected. There are several ways to quickly find the file you need. For example like this or like this
It's good if you know for sure that they are there. And if you are looking for the right file and you know exactly what it is on the computer, and where and in what folder? Well, just sclerosis comes to visit. And then the FileSearchy program will help us. See its possibilities.
Great program, I use it myself often and recommend it to you.
She looks like this. 
On the left side there is a search bar where you must enter the name of the lost file. After that, click on the button located at the very bottom of the program window.
In less than five seconds, the program will go through all the hard drives and give out all the files that have the word that you entered in the search engine in the name. You see how the FileSearchy program works smartly, and if you manually started searching, you definitely wouldn’t fit in at the time for which the program coped.
So we are looking for all the files in which there is a match for our request. And there can be a lot of files in which there is the same word, and therefore we still have to lose some of the time. In this case, the program provides us with an advanced search. That is simplified.
Search files on your computer by type
If we need to find only pictures, then we are looking for pictures. If only folders, then we ask the program to show only the folders found under the name that we registered in the search engine. Generally sorted. Find all files and then select the file type ,
ticking the box. 
This way you save even more time. FileSearchy can recognize file types such as images, audio, video, documents, programs, and folders.
FileSearchy has other options as well. For example, we only need files from the "D" drive. Under the search line, check the box next to the item “In the directory”. We will search in a specific place, and not in the entire computer memory. See the picture for how it's done.
By the way, the program allows us to select several places to search at once. Suppose on drive "E" and in one of the folders on any other drive.
It is also possible exclude from search some directories (drives or folders). This means that if you search on the whole computer, then those directories that are excluded from the search will simply not be scanned and will not appear in the result.
Please note that those folders and drives that are not scanned have an exclamation mark before the drive letter or folder name. 
So by clicking on the arrow in the search, we will know what will be scanned and what the program will throw out of the search.
Well, and some more features of this program, which, in principle, I very rarely use. Although in some cases they will be very useful.
Searching for files in document content
In the search options there is an item "In content" This search mode is more related to the search for text documents. Suppose you forgot how the document was signed. For example, they downloaded a book from the Internet whose name was in English or in transliteration. You don’t know how to write correctly, but remember what words you met in it.
And two more filters that can be applied are search by date and size. Everything is clear here.
The version I'm using.
And for those who do not want to install the program on a computer, there is a portable version of a similar program. I must say right away that it is not so attractive in terms of interface, but it has its own interesting features.
You can learn about it and download from the official website http://www.voidtools.com
