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Since about 2000, large search engines have increasingly attracted the interest of those interested in manipulating public opinion.
Examples
| Page name | Start | Description |
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| 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. |
| 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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