Best Google Search Engines Alternative

Google tends to be the 800lbs gorilla in the room during most SEO discussions. However, they aren’t the only search engine on the web. In fact there are literally hundreds of alternatives to Google.

Some of these focus on a small niche while others try to search the entire universe! Optimizing for these may not be worth your while, but understanding how different engines rank their results will give you a better appreciation of information retrieval from a broader sense.

Best Google Search Engines Alternative are below:

1. Search Explorer (MajesticSEO) :-

Our friends over at MajesticSEO have taken their massive database of link data and compiled it into a search engine! The results show a lot of really helpful metrics for SEOs.

Because this engine is largely (if not completely) powered through backlinks, it reminds me a lot of Google when it first launched. In fact Majestic’s AC rank and Flow metrics are very similar to PageRank.


2. DuckDuckGo :-

DuckDuckGo is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the "filter bubble" of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by deliberately showing all users the same search results for a given search term.

DuckDuckGo also emphasizes getting information from the best sources rather than the most sources, generating its search results from key crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia and from partnerships with other search engines like Yandex, Yahoo!, Bing and WolframAlpha.


3. Blekko :-

Blekko, trademarked as blekko (lowercase), is a company that provides a web search engine with the stated goal of providing better search results than those offered by Google Search, with results gathered from a set of 3 billion trusted webpages and excluded from such sites as content farms.

The company's site, launched to the public on November 1, 2010, uses slashtags to provide results for common searches. Blekko also offers a downloadable search bar.


4. Ask.com :-

Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering-focused web search engine founded in 1995 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley,California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine. In late 2010, facing insurmountable competition from Google, the company outsourced its web search technology and returned to its roots as a question and answer site. Douglas Leeds was elevated from president to CEO in 2010.


5. WolframAlpha.com :-

Wolfram Alpha, which was released on May 15, 2009, is based on Wolfram's earlier flagship product Mathematica, a computational platform or toolkit that encompasses computer algebra, symbolic and numerical computation, visualization, and statistics capabilities.Wolfram Alpha (also styled WolframAlpha and Wolfram|Alpha) is a computational knowledge engine or answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced "curated data", rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might.


6. Ark.com :-

Ark, is still in private beta, but it looks like it could be a very promising social search engine. Social search engines are a lot of fun in that they can either search for people, or content. Ark looks like it might do both. The finished product looks to work well with mobile devices, so that’s a plus for a widely social audience.

7. Topsy.com :-

Topsy (aka Topsy Labs, Inc.) is a social search and analytics company based in San Francisco, California. The company is a certified Twitter partner and maintains a comprehensive index of tweets, numbering in hundreds of billions, dating back to Twitter's inception in 2006.Topsy makes products to search, analyze and draw insights from conversations and trends on the public social websites including Twitter and Google+.


8. BoardReader.com :-

BoardReader searches forums and message boards. This is a great resource for any type of community research. You ca either search for content on the forums or search for forums that fit a certain topic. On the front end BoardReader is a great forum search engine, but on the back end they are running a robust data business by selling off their data.


9. CreativeCommons.org :-

Not many people know that the Creative Commons web site has a great search interface that allows users to search for content and images that are released under the creative commons license. This means, if you are in need of content that can be reused in a blog post or something else, then this search tool has you covered.


10. PDFGeni.me :-

For a long time Google couldn’t search and index PDF files. PDFGeni is a great little search engine that indexes and ranks PDF files. They also provide a preview of each file, which can make searching a lot faster. The only down fall is it looks like they might be relying to much on several free APIs which are making their interface a little “broken”. But its a safe bet that if you can’t find the PDF you need in Google, you likely can with PDFGeni.

Hope this article useful for you. Are you favorite tools or website not in the list? Feel free to mention it in comments below.