List of Google Alternative Search Engines You May Not Know!

Introduction of list of Alternative search engines you may not know:  

In this article we will know about not so famous, Google alternative search engines. 

Who are doing good and maintain users privacy, but before that, here is a quick intro of search engine. 

We decided not to include social media app search engines in this list.



What is a Search Engine?


Search engine is a Web bot, which Crawls the world wide web looking for useful information and stores data in its server to deliver results.

When someone search the web using particular query it delivers the most accurate match of that query or search term.

Search Engine example: Google, Bing, Yahoo.

Google Search Engine Home Page

What Search Engine do?


A search engine is a tool/medium by which you get results for your searched query. 

Search Engine can't work alone, which means it needs a Web Browser to perform the task. An end-user normally doesn't know the difference between a Web Browser and Search Engine. 

What is a Web Browser?


Web Browser is a Framework by which one can browse the internet to look for information s/he needs. 

Let me give you an example. Say your computer/laptop is Web browser which has the frame work but it needs software to function properly. 





Web Browser example: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Brave.


Why Search Engine Alternative?


Why should you choose an alternative over already popular search engines? Big web giants are tracking you in every web page, but these search engines doesn't track you. 

If you want more privacy then check out these search engines and you can always go back to famous search engines.





DuckDuckGo introduces itself as Privacy first Search Engine. What does it mean is, they don't store any of your data including public IP on their server. They pr

Neither DuckDuckGo creates any search profile of yours. You can read more about them by visiting DuckDuckGo about page.

How to use DuckDuckGo?


You can directly make search from their home page, other than that there are two ways to use duckduckGo in your present web browser. 

First: You can download it's extension from web browser store.

Second: Make DuckDuckGo your search engine from your web browser settings.


2. Ecosia



Ecosia is also a Privacy first Search Engine. They don't track you. What interesting about Ecosia is, they donate some of their profit to plant Trees. 

That means whenever you click on Ad shown on the Ecosia platform, You indirectly making a contribution to plant Trees. Read more about Ecosia

How to use Ecosia?


You can perform search by visiting their page or adding their extension to your web browser.

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