Google is the most popular search engine in the world, but not everyone is using Google. Some of the popular search engine alternatives of Google are Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, Naver and more. Some of these alternative search engines are popular in a specific region, such as China, South Korea, or Russia.

Except for these popular search engines, there are many other search engines, all of which come with their own specialties. 

Here are the top 50 search engines in the world.

Top 50 Search Engines in the World in 2023

Here I want to explain briefly for some of search engines that you may never heard of.

Baidu

Baidu was launched in China in the year 2000. It is the most used search engine in China, holding over 80% of the market share in the country, where Google holds a mere 0.61% of the market share.

Yandex

Yandex is the most visited search engine in Russia. Similar to Baidu, this search engine is only popular in Russia, being the country’s 4th most visited website. 

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo search engine is popular primarily because it offers a safe and peaceful searching experience, as it doesn’t ask for or store your personal information.

DuckDuckGo doesn’t have its own search index, and instead uses a multitude of sources for the search results it displays. The website records almost 50 million searches every day. 

Ask.com

Ask.com primarily operates on the question and answer format, with search engine capabilities. Users can ask questions on this platform, which are mostly answered by other users, and the others are answered in the form of polls. 

AOL

AOL is an old-time favourite of millennials. It still ranks among the top 10 search engines in the world, with a market share of a mere 0.05%. The search engine company was acquired by Verizon Entertainment in 2015 and still operates as a search engine. 

Ecosia

Ecosia, founded in 2009, is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The USP of Ecosia is its founding principle of providing tech services and doing its bit for the environment. This is one of the few search engines that uses a share of profits made to plant trees and make the world a greener place. 

Internet Archive

Internet Archive is dedicated to tracking and documenting the history of different Internet pages. It has records of how Internet pages have changed since 1996. You can look up any website on this search engine to see how it has evolved over time. It also gives its users an option to store digital content without worrying about the hosting space. 

Qwant

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising.

The user-friendly interface categorizes your search results into web, news and social, and there’s even a dedicated music section that uses AI to help you search for lyrics and discover new music.

Swisscows

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. It doesn’t store personal data, IP addresses or search queries, and its servers are based in Switzerland, which has some of the world’s strictest privacy policies.

It’s particularly popular with parents who want to give their children a safe search experience, as its built-in filter for pornography and violence can’t be overridden.

Boardreader

Just type in the search query and Boardreader will crawl the forums and show all relevant results. You can then sort the results by date and language.

Summary

This list of top 50 search engines in the world will change from time to time. However, one thing seems fairly certain: Google will have a long and fruitful reign. That’s why we focus on Google SEO. At the same time, we should pay attention to Baidu SEO, Naver SEO and Yandex SEO because all of these search engines play an important role in China, South Korea and Russia respectively.