Comparison of web search engines

Web search engines are listed in tables below for comparison purposes. The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software. The second table lists internet privacy aspects along with other technical parameters, such as whether the engine provides personalization (alternatively viewed as a filter bubble).

Defunct or acquired search engines are not listed here.

Search crawlers

Current search engines with independent crawlers, as of December 2018.

Search engineCompanyLaunchedSoftware distribution licensePages indexedDaily direct queriesResults countAdvertisements
Baidu Baidu 2000 Proprietary Unknown Unknown Yes Yes
Bing Microsoft 1998/2009 Proprietary 13.5 billion[1] Unknown Yes Yes
Exalead Exalead 2000 Proprietary Unknown Unknown Yes No
Gigablast Independent 2000 Free >1 billion[2] Unknown Yes No
Google Search Alphabet Inc 1998 Proprietary 40 billion[1] 9.022 billion[3] Yes Yes
Mojeek Mojeek 2004 Proprietary 2 billion[4] Unknown Yes No
Naver Naver Corp. 1999 Proprietary Unknown Unknown No Yes
Qwant Qwant 2013 Proprietary 20 billion[5] 10 million[6] No Yes
Sogou Tencent 2010 Proprietary Unknown Unknown Yes Yes
YaCy Independent,
Distributed,
Peer-to-Peer		 2005 Free 1.4 billion[7] 0.13 million [7] Yes No
Yandex Search Yandex 1997 Proprietary >2 billion[8] Unknown Yes Yes

    Digital rights
    See also: Comparison of webmail providers § Digital rights, PRISM (surveillance program), MUSCULAR (surveillance program), Internet privacy, and digital rights
    Search engine Server's location(s) Dedicated servers Data center Cloud computing HTTPS available Tor gateway available Proxy gateway search links available Internet censorship (countries)
    Baidu China Yes No Unknown China
    Bing USA/China Yes Yes No Unknown China
    DuckDuckGo[9] USA No Verizon Internet Services Amazon EC2 Yes Yes [10] No No[11]
    Gigablast USA Yes[12] Yes[12] No Unknown
    Google Search USA Yes Yes[13] No Unknown Argentina,[14]
    China
    Mojeek UK Yes Custodian Data Centres Yes No Unknown Unknown
    Qwant Europe, France Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Unknown
    Sogou China Yes No Unknown China
    Yahoo! Search USA Partial Yes[15] No Unknown Argentina[14]
    Yandex Search Russia Yes Yes[16] No Unknown Unknown

      Tracking and surveillance
      Search engine HTTP tracking cookies Personalized results[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] IP address tracking[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 2] Information sharing[lower-alpha 2] Warrantless wiretapping of unencrypted backend traffic[lower-alpha 2]
      Baidu Yes Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
      Bing Unknown Unknown Yes[17] Yes[17] 2014 and prior[17][18][19]
      DuckDuckGo[9][20] No No No No No
      Ecosia No[21] No No No Unknown
      Gigablast Unknown No No[12] No[12] No[12]
      Google Search yes Default[22] Yes[17] Yes[17] 2013 and prior[17][23]
      Mojeek No No No No Unknown
      Qwant No No No No No
      Sogou Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
      Yahoo! Search Unknown Unknown Yes[17] Yes[17] 2014 and prior[17][24]
      Yandex Search Unknown Yes[25] Unknown Limited[26] Unknown
      1. The results of the search are arranged for the user in accordance to their interests as determined from previous search queries or other information available to the search engine.
      2. Cannot be verified independently, as the information is handled by servers not accessible by the public.
      3. Tracking the user has to be conducted in order to provide personalized search results.

      See also

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