Content search engines or metasearch engines are applications that allow users to search for information on the Internet. Below we show some of the most important web search engines.
Google (www.google.com)
Google is the most popular search engine on the entire internet, it is maintained by Alphabet. It is the most used search engine on the Web and receives hundreds of millions of queries every day through its different services.
The Google internet search engine was written in Python, C and C++, initially developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It was launched in 1998. Currently, it is available in 129 languages.
Bing (www.bing.com)
This web browser is developed and maintained by the Microsoft company. This service is based on Microsoft’s previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and later Live Search. Bing provides several search services, including web, video, image, and map search products.
It was written in the C# programming language and released in 2009. Currently, it is available in 40 languages.
Yahoo (search.yahoo.com)
It was one of the most popular web search engines on the Internet in its time, it was later surpassed by Google, but it still works today. Yahoo was released in 1995. It is available in 40 languages.
Yandex (www.yandex.com)
Yandex Browser is a free web browser developed in 2012 for mobile devices and computers by the Russian web search corporation 1 that uses the Blink rendering engine used in the open source Chromium project. The browser checks the security of the web page with the Yandex security system and checks the downloaded files with the Kaspersky antivirus. The browser also uses Opera Software’s Turbo technology to speed up browsing on slow connections. Yandex is the search engine used by Russia, its counterpart to Google in that region.
The browser is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. It was developed in C++ and JavaScript.
Baidu (www.baidu.com)
Baidu (Chinese, 百度; pinyin, Bǎidù ; literally, ‘hundred times’) is a Beijing -based Chinese-language search engine founded in late 1999 by Robin Li and Eric Xu. It is the Chinese counterpart to Google, it is a metasearch engine that integrates the same services as Google for the Chinese community.
Duckduckgo (duckduckgo.com)
DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine, it does not collect or share user information, nor does it save your search history. This search engine does not display search results from content farms. It uses various APIs of other websites to show quick results to queries, and for traditional links it uses the help of its partners (mainly Bing) and its own crawler. DuckDuckGo was developed by Gabriel Weinberg and released in 2008. It is available for 97 languages. Its headquarters are in Pennsylvania, United States.
Brave (search.brave.com)
Brave is an open source Chromium-based web browser, created by the company Brave Software in 2016, founded by the co-founder of the Mozilla Project and creator of JavaScript, Brendan Eich.
As of 2019, Brave has been released for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. The current version has five search engines by default, including its business partner, DuckDuckGo. It was programmed in C, C++, JavaScript and Rust. Supports x86_64 IA-32 ARM platforms.
Which of these web search engines do you use? Did you know them all? I urge you to try them so that you can determine which is the best option.
