Search engine

Search engine (technology)

Since about 2000, large search engines have increasingly attracted the interest of those interested in manipulating public opinion.

 

Examples

Page name	Start	Description
Ask.com	1996	One of the earliest search engines.
Baidu	1 January 2000	The Chinese #1 search engine
Bing	3 June 2009	The Microsoft search engine
Dogpile	1996	Alternative search engine
DuckDuckGo		A search engine that claims not to track its users, and which does not appear to be censoring this site as much as Google
Ecosia	2009	"Green" search engine
Gigablast	2002	An open source search engine written in over 500,00o lines of C/C++. In 2019, Martin Wells warned against using the code.
Google		Global Internet/Skynet conglomerate
MetaGer		A metasearch engine focused on protecting users privacy
Mojeek	2004	Independent alternative search engine
Naver	1999	South Korean search engine
Presearch	2017	Decentralized search engine that takes in community feedback in it's development.
Qwant	2013	A French-based search engine with its own indexing engine. It claims that it does not employ user tracking or personalize search results in order to avoid trapping users in a filter bubble.
SearXNG		An open community metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.
Searx	2014	An open source decentralised search engine
StartPage	1998	Search engine in cooperation with Linux Mint
Swisscows	2014	Search engine which claims not keep track of the searches carried out on its site. Does however use Microsoft Bing for web search.
Webcrawler.com		Meta search engine
Yacy	2003	An open source decentralised web crawler
Yahoo!	January 1994	Old search engine and web company
Yandex		Russian version of Google, multilingual search engine

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