More search engines. Search engines in Russia: what else is there besides Yandex and Google. Three world leaders

What is this

DuckDuckGo is a fairly well-known open source search engine. Servers are located in the USA. In addition to its own robot, the search engine uses results from other sources: Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia.

The better

DuckDuckGo positions itself as a search engine that provides maximum privacy and confidentiality. The system does not collect any data about the user, does not store logs (no search history), and the use of cookies is as limited as possible.

DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information from users. This is our privacy policy.
Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo

Why do you need this

All major search engines are trying to personalize search results based on data about the person in front of the monitor. This phenomenon is called the “filter bubble”: the user sees only those results that are consistent with his preferences or that the system deems as such.

Forms an objective picture that does not depend on your past behavior on the Internet, and eliminates Google and Yandex thematic advertising based on your queries. With DuckDuckGo it's easy to search for information on foreign languages, while Google and Yandex by default give preference to Russian-language sites, even if the request is entered in another language.

What is this

not Evil is a system that searches the anonymous Tor network. To use it, you need to go to this network, for example by launching a specialized .

not Evil is not the only search engine of its kind. There is LOOK (the default search in the Tor browser, accessible from the regular Internet) or TORCH (one of the oldest search engines on the Tor network) and others. We settled on not Evil because of the clear hint from Google (just look at the start page).

The better

It searches where Google, Yandex and other search engines are generally closed.

Why do you need this

The Tor network contains many resources that cannot be found on the law-abiding Internet. And their number will grow as government control over the content of the Internet tightens. Tor is a kind of network within the Internet with its own social networks, torrent trackers, media, trading platforms, blogs, libraries and so on.

3. YaCy

What is this

YaCy is a decentralized search engine that works on the principle of P2P networks. Each computer on which the main software module is installed scans the Internet independently, that is, it is analogous to a search robot. The results obtained are collected into a common database that is used by all YaCy participants.

The better

It’s difficult to say whether this is better or worse, since YaCy is a completely different approach to organizing search. The absence of a single server and owner company makes the results completely independent of anyone's preferences. The autonomy of each node eliminates censorship. YaCy is capable of searching the deep web and non-indexed public networks.

Why do you need this

If you are a supporter of open source software and a free Internet, not subject to the influence of government agencies and large corporations, then YaCy is your choice. It can also be used to organize a search within a corporate or other autonomous network. And even though YaCy is not very useful in everyday life, it is a worthy alternative to Google in terms of the search process.

4. Pipl

What is this

Pipl is a system designed to search for information about a specific person.

The better

The authors of Pipl claim that their specialized algorithms search more efficiently than “regular” search engines. In particular, profiles are given priority social networks, comments, lists of participants and various databases where information about people is published, such as databases of court decisions. Pipl's leadership in this area is confirmed by assessments from Lifehacker.com, TechCrunch and other publications.

Why do you need this

If you need to find information about a person living in the US, then Pipl will be much more effective than Google. The databases of Russian courts are apparently inaccessible to the search engine. Therefore, he does not cope so well with Russian citizens.

What is this

FindSounds is another specialized search engine. Searches various sounds in open sources: house, nature, cars, people, and so on. The service does not support queries in Russian, but there is an impressive list of Russian-language tags that you can use to search.

The better

The output contains only sounds and nothing extra. In the settings you can set the desired format and sound quality. All sounds found are available for download. There is a search by pattern.

Why do you need this

If you need to quickly find the sound of a musket shot, the blows of a suckling woodpecker, or the cry of Homer Simpson, then this service is for you. And we chose this only from the available Russian-language queries. On English language the spectrum is even wider.

Seriously, a specialized service requires a specialized audience. But what if it comes in handy for you too?

What is this

Wolfram|Alpha is a computational search engine. Instead of links to articles containing keywords, it provides a ready-made answer to the user’s request. For example, if you enter “compare the populations of New York and San Francisco” into the search form in English, Wolfram|Alpha will immediately display tables and graphs with the comparison.

The better

This service is better than others for finding facts and calculating data. Wolfram|Alpha collects and organizes knowledge available on the Web from a variety of fields, including science, culture and entertainment. If this database contains a ready-made answer to a search query, the system displays it; if not, it calculates and displays the result. In this case, the user sees only nothing superfluous.

Why do you need this

If you are, for example, a student, analyst, journalist or Researcher, you can use Wolfram|Alpha to find and calculate data related to your activities. The service does not understand all requests, but it is constantly developing and becoming smarter.

What is this

The Dogpile metasearch engine displays a combined list of results from search results from Google, Yahoo and other popular systems.

The better

First, Dogpile displays fewer ads. Secondly, the service uses a special algorithm to find and show the best results from different search engines. According to the Dogpile developers, their systems generate the most complete search results on the entire Internet.

Why do you need this

If you can't find information on Google or another standard search engine, look for it in several search engines at once using Dogpile.

What is this

BoardReader is a system for text search in forums, question and answer services and other communities.

The better

The service allows you to narrow your search field to social platforms. Thanks to special filters, you can quickly find posts and comments that match your criteria: language, publication date and site name.

Why do you need this

BoardReader can be useful for PR specialists and other media specialists who are interested in the opinion of the masses on certain issues.

Finally

The life of alternative search engines is often fleeting. Lifehacker asked the former general director of the Ukrainian branch of Yandex, Sergei Petrenko, about the long-term prospects of such projects.

Sergey Petrenko

Former CEO"Yandex.Ukraine".

As for the fate of alternative search engines, it is simple: to be very niche projects with a small audience, therefore without clear commercial prospects or, conversely, with complete clarity of their absence.

If you look at the examples in the article, you can see that such search engines either specialize in a narrow but popular niche, which, perhaps, has not yet grown enough to be noticeable on the radars of Google or Yandex, or they are testing an original hypothesis in ranking, which is not yet applicable in regular search.

For example, if a search on Tor suddenly turns out to be in demand, that is, results from there are needed by at least a percentage of Google’s audience, then, of course, ordinary search engines will begin to solve the problem of how to find them and show them to the user. If the behavior of the audience shows that for a significant proportion of users in a significant number of queries, results given without taking into account factors depending on the user seem more relevant, then Yandex or Google will begin to produce such results.

“Be better” in the context of this article does not mean “be better at everything.” Yes, in many aspects our heroes are far from Yandex (even far from Bing). But each of these services gives the user something that the search industry giants cannot offer. Surely you also know similar projects. Share with us - let's discuss.

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. , then its few users had enough of their own bookmarks. However, as you remember, it happened in geometric progression, and very soon it became more difficult to navigate in all its diversity.

Then directories appeared (Yahoo, Dmoz and others), in which their authors added and sorted various sites into categories. This immediately made life easier for the then, not yet very numerous users of the global network. Many of these catalogs are still alive today.

But after some time, the size of their databases became so large that the developers first thought about creating a search within them, and then about creating an automated system for indexing all Internet content in order to make it accessible to everyone.

The main search engines of the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet

As you understand, this idea was implemented with stunning success, but, however, everything turned out well only for a handful of selected companies that managed not to disappear on the Internet. Almost all search engines that appeared in the first wave have now either disappeared, languished, or were bought by more successful competitors.

A search engine is a very complex and, importantly, very resource-intensive mechanism (this means not only material resources, but also human ones). Behind the seemingly simple , or its ascetic analogue from Google, there are thousands of employees, hundreds of thousands of servers and many billions of investments that are necessary for this colossus to continue to operate and remain competitive.

Entering this market now and starting from scratch is more of a utopia than a real business project. For example, one of the world's richest corporations, Microsoft, has been trying to gain a foothold in the search market for decades, and only now their search engine Bing is slowly beginning to meet their expectations. And before that there was a whole series of failures and setbacks.

What can we say about entering this market without any special financial influences. For example, our domestic search engine Nigma has a lot of useful and innovative things in its arsenal, but their traffic is thousands of times lower than the leaders of the Russian market. For example, take a look at the daily Yandex audience:

In this regard, we can assume that the list of the main (best and luckiest) search engines of the Runet and the entire Internet has already been formed and the whole intrigue lies only in who will eventually devour whom, or how their percentage share will be distributed if they all survive and will stay afloat.

Russian search engine market is very clearly visible and here, probably, we can distinguish two or three main players and a couple of minor ones. In general, a rather unique situation has developed in RuNet, which, as I understand it, has repeated itself only in two other countries in the world.

I'm talking about the fact that the Google search engine, having come to Russia in 2004, has still not been able to take leadership. In fact, they tried to buy Yandex around this period, but something didn’t work out there and now “our Russia”, along with the Czech Republic and China, are those places where the almighty Google, if not defeated, then, in any case, met serious resistance.

In fact, to see the current state of affairs among the best search engines on the RuNet Anyone can. It will be enough to paste this URL into the address bar of your browser:

Http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/ru/searches.html?period=month;total=yes

The fact is that most of them use .

After entering the given Url, you will see a picture that is not very attractive and presentable, but it well reflects the essence of the matter. Pay attention to the top five search engines from which sites in Russian receive traffic:

Yes, of course, not all resources with Russian-language content are located in this zone. There are also SU and RF, and general areas like COM or NET are full of Internet projects focused on Runet, but still, the sample is quite representative.

This dependence can be presented in a more colorful way, as, for example, someone did online for his presentation:

This doesn't change the essence. There are a couple of leaders and several very, very far behind search engines. By the way, I have already written about many of them. Sometimes it can be quite interesting to plunge into the history of success or, conversely, to delve into the reasons for the failures of once promising search engines.

So, in order of importance for Russia and the Runet as a whole, I will list them and give them brief characteristics:

Searching on Google has already become a household word for many people on the planet - you can read about it in the link. In this search engine, I liked the “translation of results” option, when you received answers from all over the world, but in your native language, but now, unfortunately, it is not available (at least on google.ru).

Also in Lately I am also puzzled by the quality of their output (Search Engine Result Page). Personally, I always first use the RuNet mirror search engine (there is one there, well, I’m used to it) and only if I don’t find an intelligible answer there, I turn to Google.

Usually the release of them made me happy, but lately it has only puzzled me - sometimes such nonsense comes out. It is possible that their struggle to increase income from contextual advertising and the constant shuffling of search results in order to discredit SEO promotion may lead to the opposite result. In any case, this search engine has a competitor on the RuNet, and what kind of one at that.

I think that it is unlikely that anyone will specifically go to Go.mail.ru to search in RuNet. Therefore the traffic to entertainment projects from this search engine can be significantly more than ten percent. Owners of such projects should pay attention to this system.

However, in addition to the clear leaders in the search engine market of the Russian-language segment of the Internet, there are several more players whose share is quite low, but nevertheless the very fact of their existence makes it necessary to say a few words about them.

Runet search engines from the second echelon

Internet-wide search engines

By and large, on the scale of the entire Internet there is only one serious player - Google. This is the undisputed leader, but it still has some competition.

First of all, it's still the same Bing, which, for example, has a very good position in the American market, especially considering that its engine is also used on all Yahoo services (almost a third of the entire US search market).

Well, secondly, due to the huge share that users from China make up in the total number of Internet users, their main search engine called Baidu wedges itself into the distribution of places on the world Olympus. He was born in 2000 and now his share is about 80% of the entire national audience in China.

It is difficult to say anything more intelligible about Baidu, but on the Internet there are opinions that places in its Top are occupied not only by the sites most relevant to the request, but also by those who paid for it (directly to the search engine, and not to the SEO office). Of course, this applies primarily to commercial listings.

In general, looking at the statistics, it becomes clear why Google easily agrees to worsen its search results in exchange for increasing profits from contextual advertising. In fact, they are not afraid of user churn, because in most cases they have nowhere to go. This situation is somewhat sad, but we'll see what happens next.

By the way, to make life even more difficult for optimizers, and perhaps to maintain peace of mind for users of this search engine, Google has recently used encryption when transmitting queries from users’ browsers to the search bar. Soon it will no longer be possible to see in the statistics of visitor counters what queries Google users came to you for.

Of course, in addition to the search engines mentioned in this publication, there are thousands of others - regional, specialized, exotic, etc. Trying to list and describe them all in one article would be impossible, and probably not necessary. Let's better say a few words about how easy it is to create a search engine and how easy and inexpensive it is to keep it up to date.

The vast majority of systems work on similar principles (read about this and that) and pursue the same goal - to give users an answer to their question. Moreover, this answer must be relevant (corresponding to the question), comprehensive and, which is not unimportant, relevant (of the first freshness).

Solving this problem is not so easy, especially considering that the search engine will need to analyze the contents of billions of Internet pages on the fly, weed out the unnecessary ones, and from the remaining ones form a list (issue), where the most appropriate answers to the user’s question will appear first.

This extremely complex task is solved by preliminary collection of information from these pages using various indexing robots. They collect links from already visited pages and load information from them into the search engine database. There are bots that index text (a regular and fast bot that lives on news and frequently updated resources so that the latest data is always presented in the results).

In addition, there are robots that index images (for their subsequent output to), favicons, site mirrors (for their subsequent comparison and possible gluing), bots that check the functionality of Internet pages, which users or through tools for webmasters (here you can read about, and) .

The indexing process itself and the subsequent process of updating index databases are quite time-consuming. Although Google does this much faster than its competitors, at least Yandex, which takes a week or two to do this (read about).

Typically, a search engine breaks the text content of an Internet page into individual words, which are reduced to the basic principles, so that it can then give correct answers to questions asked in different morphological forms. All the extra stuff in the form of HTML tags, spaces, etc. things are deleted, and the remaining words are sorted alphabetically and their position in this document is indicated next to them.

This kind of thing is called a reverse index and allows you to search not by web pages, but by structured data located on the search engine servers.

The number of such servers for Yandex (which searches mainly only for Russian-language sites and a little for Ukrainian and Turkish) is in the tens or even hundreds of thousands, and for Google (which searches in hundreds of languages) - in the millions.

Many servers have copies, which serve both to increase the security of documents and help increase the speed of request processing (by distributing the load). Estimate the costs of maintaining this entire economy.

The user's request will be sent by the load balancer to the server segment that is currently least loaded. Then an analysis is carried out of the region from which the search engine user sent his request, and it is analyzed morphologically. If a similar query was recently entered in the search bar, then the user is given data from the cache so as not to overload the servers again.

If the request has not yet been cached, then it is transferred to the area where the search engine's index database is located. In response, you will receive a list of all Internet pages that are at least somewhat related to the request. Not only direct occurrences are taken into account, but also other morphological forms, as well as, etc. things.

Their needs to be ranked and at this stage the algorithm (artificial intelligence) comes into play. In fact, the user's request multiplies at the expense of everyone possible options its interpretation and answers to many queries are sought simultaneously (through the use of query language operators, some of which are available to ordinary users).

As a rule, the search results contain one page from each site (sometimes more). are now very complex and take into account many factors. In addition, to correct them, and are used, which manually evaluate reference sites, which allows you to adjust the operation of the algorithm as a whole.

In general, it is clear that the matter is dark. We can talk about this for a long time, but it is already clear that user satisfaction with a search system is achieved, oh, how difficult it is. And there will always be those who don’t like something, like you and me, dear readers.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

What is a search engine

A search engine is a service that searches for information on the World Wide Web based on a given user search query. In order to find this very information, you need to open the search engine website and formulate a request. It is not necessary to write entire sentences in the search bar. Search engines today are already so “smart” that they can understand a user’s request literally at a glance.

IN modern world There is practically no person who has not searched for something on the World Wide Web at least once in his life. Search engines, with the help of which we carry out searches, have already become firmly established in our lives - we “Google” the titles of films and books, the names and addresses of people, culinary recipes and student works.

It’s hard to imagine how difficult it would have been for us if there were no Yandex, Google, Mail and other information retrieval systems. You would have to write down the names of sites or even select them from a set of characters. But despite the fact that search engines are an integral part of the daily life of a modern person, few people think about how they work and how they appeared.

History of search engines

Surprisingly, the history of search engines dates back to 1945. It was then that the American scientist Vaniver Bush first introduced the idea of hypertext in one of his articles. Subsequently, he also participated in the creation of the first prototype of the search engine, but the main work was still done by other people.

In 1969, scientists from one of the US research projects agencies created a concept that allows information to be transmitted using a computer network. They wanted to use this development for military purposes, but it turned out that the connection was too weak and information leakage could occur. Work on the concept stopped, but was resumed again in 1980. This time it was possible to unite the information library of US universities using computer networks.

The first real prototype of modern search engines appeared in the mid-1990s, when directories of sites were created that could be searched. There were also search engine bots, but they could no longer cope with their responsibilities after the development of the Internet and the emergence of a large number of sites.

Since 1995, modern search engines began their work on the World Wide Web - Yahoo, Google, Yandex and others.

How search engines work

The process of finding information on the Internet by a search engine consists of three stages:

Studying all sites - scanning;
Indexing;
Ranging

At the first stage, the search engine wanders around the World Wide Web, studying the contents of each site. Considering how many sites are present on the Internet and how much information is presented on them, one can only guess at what speed the scanning occurs. After all, the result must be returned immediately after the user’s request.

Search engines are scanned by special robots. They are also called spiders. They go to every site on the Internet and enter information from them into their database. On old sites this is done periodically, but exactly how many times a month is decided by the search engines themselves. When a new site appears, robots quickly scan all its content and take all this information for themselves. Then everything happens exactly the same as on other sites.

At the second stage, the process of entering the found information into the database occurs. Here too, each search engine works differently. For example, Goggle takes all the information found on the site, and Yandex only takes the part that seems useful to it. Search engines then classify the data into topics to make it easier to work with later.

At the third stage, sites are arranged in order, depending on how much the information on them coincides with the user’s search query.

The number of search engine users is growing every day, which means the popularity of the search engines themselves is growing. Perhaps very soon the positions of services will change, they will begin to work in a different way or disappear altogether. And ordinary users can only adapt to them.

So, here are the most common Runet search engines.

Yandex: history of origin

How to use Google search

The work of Goggle is almost similar to the work of Yandex. Here, too, to find the necessary information, it is enough to enter a written request in the desired language into the search bar. You can also set a voice command. To do this, just click on the microphone icon and make a search request.

The search engine will help you find not only sites with text information, but also the necessary pictures, videos or news. To do this, you need to ask a query and then select the appropriate section at the bottom of the search bar.

Search engine Mail

– the largest Internet portal on the Runet, combining several services. One of them is the Mail search engine, which appeared relatively recently - in 2003. This project was launched with the intention of making it as successful as mail.ru, Odnoklassniki or Agent. For this, the developments of Google WebSearch were used, the service was integrated with List.mail.ru, but still the search engine did not become as popular as, for example, Yandex.

Despite this, mail.ru has its own characteristics that distinguish it from other similar services. Thus, the search in it is carried out not only throughout the Internet, but also in the Mail services themselves. The search system can also distinguish between the titles of films and books, remember previous user requests, and provide information on similar requests. In the future, we will create a special service for webmasters, where it will be possible to receive information about:

queries of interest to search engine users;
visited pages;
downloaded files;
cache of visited pages;
ranking of sites by traffic.

Currently, the Mail search engine ranks 3rd in popularity on the RuNet and processes almost 6% of all Internet requests in the Russian Federation.

How to use Mail search

Unlike Google and Yandex, the Mail search bar is located at the top of the main page. But the search algorithm is the same. To find information, just enter a query and click the magnifying glass icon. The Mail sections are similar to the main search engines of the Runet. Here you can also find pictures and videos, but in addition, “applications” and “answers” are available. By selecting the first section, you can use numerous service tools. The second will allow you to find information in Mail.Answers.

And in this article I wrote about services in great detail.

Search engine Rambler

Rambler- the very first search engine of the Runet and a huge information space. Its history began in 1991. At that time, the Internet as such was just beginning to emerge in Russia and was used only in large organizations. These organizations included institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and one of them began to use local network for transferring data between employees. Later the network was connected to the Internet.

After five years of successful use of the network, under the leadership of Russian programmer Dmitry Kryukov, they created a search engine called Rambler, which means “wanderer.” This name fully reflects the essence of not only this search engine, but also all others.

Now, 16 years later, Rambler exists as a system with a variety of tools - games, weather, news, goods, maps, etc. It accounts for 0.4% of Runet search queries.

The service underwent the most significant changes in 2012: the design changed, and news was displayed by default. But almost immediately after this, the management decided to enter into an agreement with Yandex and move on to searching for it. That is, now requests from Rambler are processed and issued by Yandex, and the service itself works on the basis of its other tools.

How to use Rambler search

Searching in Rambler is no different from searching in other similar services. The user enters a command in the search bar and after clicking “find” the results are displayed. In addition to text information, you can also find pictures here.

Other Runet search engines

Search engine Nigma

Nigma is the most intelligent search engine created by programmers Viktor Lavrenko and Vladimir Chernyshov in 2004. It differs from other similar services in that it uses not only its own search algorithm, but also data from other search engines. Nygma also allows you to use filters to quickly find the information you need.

Here you can separately search for movies, music, pictures, links, and even tools that help students with homework. The filtering function is called clustering. Initially, Nygma was conceived precisely as a smart search engine that saves time. This is why filters were created.

Despite all the features of Nigma, it is not as popular as Yandex, Google, Mail and even Rambler. It accounts for only 0.1% of all queries in search engines. Perhaps this is why the Nigma.rf website has become unavailable for use since September 2017, but there have been no official announcements about the closure of the project.

Search engine Sputnik

Satellite is the Russian official search engine that appeared on the market in 2014. Its creator is the Rostelecom company.

The history of Sputnik began back in 2010, when the Russian Government announced the need to create a national search system. The reason for this was the impossibility of controlling existing search engines, since they are not state-owned. In 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev supported the idea, and already in 2013 the project had a name and was preparing to launch. On May 22, it was launched in beta testing mode.

In addition to searching for information, Sputnik offers services such as “Weather”, “Medicine”, “TV program”, “Maps”, “Finance”, “Poster”, etc. But despite this, Internet users did not accept the search engine with much enthusiasm, and in 2017 the project was declared a failure.

How to use Sputnik search

Another Russian search engine, Sputnik, has a simple and user-friendly interface. To search for information in it, just enter a query in the search bar and click the “find” button. The only way this service differs fundamentally from similar ones is the quality of the result. That is, Sputnik will not provide as many search results as other, more popular ones.

Search engine Aport

I found a time when we were actively using it. I liked him. Aport as a search engine was created in 1996 by the Agama company, one of the leaders in the development software. Initially, the service searched only one site, but over time there were more of them, and then the search became possible throughout the entire Runet.

Until 2000, Aport occupied high positions in the RuNet along with Yandex and Google. The developers changed the design several times, introduced other tools besides search, but still it began to lose ground.

In 2011, Aport entered into an agreement with Yandex and switched to its engine. Since that time, the search engine has ceased to exist as a familiar one to users. Now this is a service for searching prices for various goods and comparing them with those in other stores.

How to use Aport

Aport is a search engine, but it only finds products with prices. To do this, you need to select the desired product from the catalog, and the service will show prices for it in various stores. Then you can go to a store with a better price and buy the item you need.

The service features many sections with a wide variety of products. Thanks to it you can save a lot of money.

Bing search engine

Bing- a search engine from Microsoft, which became the company’s third such project and the most successful. Microsoft management has long dreamed of creating its own search system, and the dream first became a reality in 1998, when the MSN Search project appeared on the market. But the idea was not at all met with enthusiasm by Internet users. And it’s not surprising, since the search engine was nothing worthwhile.

In 2006, Windows Live Search appeared, a year later it was replaced by Live Search, but both were also not successful with users.

Finally, in 2009, Microsoft announced a new service – Bing. Despite the failures of its predecessors, the search engine earned itself fans in a short time. Within a year, it was equal to Yahoo in terms of the number of users, which is an amazing phenomenon in itself, and a little later it entered the list of the best search engines in the world.

Bing is much less popular on the RuNet than on the entire World Wide Web. main reason This is because the search engine displays very few Russian-language sites. In addition, in RuNet it is almost impossible to move those search engines that have become established.
In addition to the most popular, there are also a large number of search engines that are little known, but are still used by some users. Thus, in China, more than 60% of search queries are processed by the Baidu search engine.

Bing has a good panel for webmasters. Be sure to add your site there.

How to use Bing

Searching in Bing is as convenient as searching in most other search engines. To find a site with text information, an image, video or news here, just enter the corresponding query in the search bar. The search engine finds information both on Russian and foreign sites.

The main difference between Bing and other services with similar functionality is its beautifully designed interface. Unlike Google, a colorful background is installed by default.

Comparison of popular Runet search engines: where to look for what

Search engines are better the more accurate information they can provide in response to a user's request. Today the most popular system on the Internet is Google, and on the RuNet - Yandex. If we judge by the quality of the results, then they have approximately the same quality, but still it is easier to find about something in Goggle, about something in Yandex. The same applies to other search engines. Each of them is focused on a specific category of users and requests.

The task of all search engines is to find information, but each of them does it in its own way. Everyone has their own search algorithm and their own characteristics. Let's take Yandex for example. You can find almost everything here, but it is more focused on Russian-language sites. That is, if you are looking for information in Russian about a Russian writer, you definitely don’t need another source. But if you need an article in English, you should turn to Goggle or Bing. The same can be said about foreign videos and news. There are plenty of them in the sections of these search engines with the same name.

The satellite is also aimed at Russian-speaking users and here you are unlikely to find much information in foreign languages. Most likely, the results will contain something similar to the information you are looking for, but in Russian.

Mail and Rambler are similar in terms of results on Yandex, but it will be possible to find here something that is not in the main Runet search engine in very rare cases. At the same time, Mail can be used to search in the Answers service, where the necessary information is often found.

Aport is a specific search engine and is designed to search for goods. Therefore, if you intend to go shopping and are looking for great deals, this service will definitely help you. By comparing prices in popular online stores, you can find the best options.

What search engine do you use?

Do you know when the first website was launched? Can you guess? Bye everyone.

The best Internet search engines. Internet search engine – This special programs for search, installed on a whole complex of specialized machines. In simple terms, it’s the same website with a set of programs, only on a special search engine (server). It is with the help of search engines that you find all the information you need. There are a lot of search engines.

1. What is an Internet search engine

2. Popular search engines in our country

3. Popular search engines abroad

4. Unusual search engines

5. How to properly search for information on the Internet

The most best psearch systems in our country:

http://www.yandex.ru

http://www.google.com

http://www.aport.ru

http://www.rambler.ru/

http://go.mail.ru

http://www.webalta.ru/

The most unloved and intrusive search engine by all.

Popular search engines abroad

http://www.altavista.com

http://www.alltheweb.com

http://www. bing.com

http://www.google.com
http://www.excite.com
http://www.lycos.com
http://www.mamma.com

http://www.yahoo.com

http://www.dmoz.com
http://www.hotbot.com
http://www.dogpile.com
http://www.netscape.com
http://www.msn.com
http://www.webcrawler.com
http://www.jayde.com
http://www.aol.com
http://www.euroseek.com
http://www.teoma.com
http://www.about.com
http://www.ixquick.com
http://www.lookle.com
http://www.metaeureka.com
http://www.searchspot.com
http://www.slider.com
http://www.allthesites.com
http://www.clickey.com
http://www.galaxy.com
http://brainysearch.com
http://www.orura.com

Each country has its own popular search engines.

Unusual search engines

DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com/) - a hybrid search engine with a privacy policy for the user and his search queries.

TinEye (http://tineye.com/) is a search engine specializing in searching images on the Internet. It has recently lost its relevance after Google introduced the same function in its image search.

Guenon (http://www.genon.ru/) is a search engine that collects and creates content on its website.

In almost every search engine, in addition to the search box, there are links to the most popular news sites, and sites of certain subjects.

How to properly search for information on the Internet

Each search engine has its own algorithms (rules) for searching for information.

In order to find some information on the Internet through a search engine, you need to enter in the search field request. If you enter one word, then this request will give you thousands of links to sites where this word is mentioned.

Therefore, it is necessary to enter as specific a query as possible, consisting of two, three or more phrases.

Let's look at an example of a search engine query Yandex.

Let's say you want to find information on buying a computer. If you write one word in the search box “ Computer", then you will get 133 million answers

You need to ask a more specific request. It is better to indicate which computer you want to buy and where (in which city).

Then the search engine will give you much fewer answers to your query.

The search engine doesn’t care at all whether you enter your query in capital or small letters.

Yandex distinguishes between nouns and adjectives, but completely ignores endings.

Also, he is completely indifferent to cases, plural etc.

To make the search more accurate, you need to put the query in quotation marks or put an exclamation point in front of the word.

Now look at the same query, but without the exclamation marks.

Do you see the difference? With exclamation marks, the number of responses is not 2 million, but 186 thousand.

If you put an exclamation point in front of a word with a capital letter, you will be given answers in which that particular word with a capital letter appears.

If the word is in the nominative case, and you need information on exactly such a word, and exactly as you wrote it, then put two exclamation marks in front of this word. For example: !!Ball .

The search will give you answers for exactly this word " Ball" the way you wrote it. Not " ball", Not " balls", and with a capital letter.

If you write a phrase with the word " on", then Yandex will ignore " on" For example: " on the shelf" The search will only be performed using the word " shelf ».

In order for him to take it into account and not ignore it, it is necessary before the word “ on» put a plus sign – « +on ».

Each search engine has its own search algorithm, so if you use a specific search engine and want to learn how to correctly compose queries, then you just need to type “ search rules inGoogle " or " search rules in Yandex ", follow the link to the response to your request and read the necessary information.

What is this

DuckDuckGo is a fairly well-known open source search engine. Servers are located in the USA. In addition to its own robot, the search engine uses results from other sources: Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia.

The better

DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information from users. This is our privacy policy.
Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo

Why do you need this

Forms an objective picture that does not depend on your past behavior on the Internet, and eliminates Google and Yandex thematic advertising based on your queries. With DuckDuckGo it is easy to search for information in foreign languages, while Google and Yandex by default give preference to Russian-language sites, even if the query is entered in another language.

What is this

not Evil is a system that searches the anonymous Tor network. To use it, you need to go to this network, for example by launching a specialized .

The better

It searches where Google, Yandex and other search engines are generally closed.

Why do you need this

3. YaCy

What is this

The better

Why do you need this

4. Pipl

What is this

Pipl is a system designed to search for information about a specific person.

The better

The authors of Pipl claim that their specialized algorithms search more efficiently than “regular” search engines. In particular, priority is given to social network profiles, comments, member lists, and various databases that publish information about people, such as databases of court decisions. Pipl's leadership in this area is confirmed by assessments from Lifehacker.com, TechCrunch and other publications.

Why do you need this

What is this

The better

The output contains only sounds and nothing extra. In the settings you can set the desired format and sound quality. All sounds found are available for download. There is a search by pattern.

Why do you need this

Seriously, a specialized service requires a specialized audience. But what if it comes in handy for you too?

What is this

Wolfram|Alpha is a computational search engine. Instead of links to articles containing keywords, it provides a ready-made answer to the user's request. For example, if you enter “compare the populations of New York and San Francisco” into the search form in English, Wolfram|Alpha will immediately display tables and graphs with the comparison.

The better

Why do you need this

If you are a student, analyst, journalist, or researcher, for example, you can use Wolfram|Alpha to find and calculate data related to your work. The service does not understand all requests, but it is constantly developing and becoming smarter.

What is this

The Dogpile metasearch engine displays a combined list of results from search results from Google, Yahoo and other popular systems.

The better

Why do you need this

If you can't find information on Google or another standard search engine, look for it in several search engines at once using Dogpile.

What is this

BoardReader is a system for text search in forums, question and answer services and other communities.

The better

Why do you need this

BoardReader can be useful for PR specialists and other media specialists who are interested in the opinion of the masses on certain issues.

Finally

Sergey Petrenko

Former General Director of Yandex.Ukraine.