Search engine

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

 

Examples

Page nameStartDescription
Ask.com1996One of the earliest search engines.
Baidu1 January 2000The Chinese #1 search engine
Bing3 June 2009The Microsoft search engine
Dogpile1996Alternative search engine
DuckDuckGoA search engine that claims not to track its users, and which does not appear to be censoring this site as much as Google
Ecosia2009"Green" search engine
Gigablast2002An open source search engine written in over 500,00o lines of C/C++. In 2019, Martin Wells warned against using the code.
GoogleGlobal Internet/Skynet conglomerate
MetaGerA metasearch engine focused on protecting users privacy
Mojeek2004Independent alternative search engine
Naver1999South Korean search engine
Presearch2017Decentralized search engine that takes in community feedback in it's development.
Qwant2013A 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.
SearXNGAn open community metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.
Searx2014An open source decentralised search engine
StartPage1998Search engine in cooperation with Linux Mint
Swisscows2014Search engine which claims not keep track of the searches carried out on its site. Does however use Microsoft Bing for web search.
Webcrawler.comMeta search engine
Yacy2003An open source decentralised web crawler
Yahoo!January 1994Old search engine and web company
YandexRussian version of Google, multilingual search engine
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