Beyond Google; 9 Ultimate Search Engines

#1 Ixquick

Ixquick is a meta search engine founded in 1998. Users looking for privacy and powerful search can choose this platform to find results. Results come with ratings like five stars meaning that five search engines agree on it. On entering any advanced search, lxquick sends the query to the search engines that can handle that specific query; hence you find your results.

#2 Dogpile

Dogpile was created by Infospace in an attempt to save user’s time. This search engine fetches results from Google, Yahoo and several other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers.

#3 Apache Solr

Like Yacy, Apache Solr is an open source stand alone server developed from Apache Lucen project. The platform features powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering of information, rich document handling and near real time indexing

#4 YaCy

YaCy is a decentralized web search that focuses on peer to peer network. This means that the engine allows you to search the entire public Internet through a worldwide peer network in which everyones information is equal and content is never censored. This is free and can be downloaded from the website. 

#5 GoodSearch

GoodSearch is a Yahoo powered search engine, that contributes 50 percent of its revenue to charities or schools its users choose. The money donated comes from the search engine advertisers, merchants and participating restaurants.
The search engine includes features like GoodShop – a catalogue of merchants that help support causes, GoodDining  a dine out of charity program and GoodSurvey that takes market research surveys to earn money for their favorite causes.
The search engine has around 5 lakh unique visitors every month.

#6 Blekko

As you open to Blekko, you will find its tag line which says ‘the spam free search engine’. It holds the goal of offering better search results than Google search. Its mission is to combine traditional algorithms with user knowledge and partner proficiency in order to show results from most reputed websites. Blekko also has an editorial approach where it makes your search results handpicked for what you are looking for online.
The search engine also has a downloadable bar.

#7 Ark

Ark is a personal search engine that allows you search for people. The search tool comes in handy as an alternative top Graph search. You can search through more than 1 billion people based on location, college and employment as filters helping you find the right person. If you have moved into a new location or city, Ark is a suitable searching tool where you can find people with similar interests as yours.

#8 Wolfram Alpha

This is an answer engine that was developed by Wolfram Research. This online service answers queries directly by computing the answer from structured data rather than displaying a list of searches and documents containing the answer.
This dynamic search engine’s goal is to build on existing knowledge and become a single reliable source for definitive answers. Wolfram was released in 2009

#9 DuckDuck Go

If privacy is your prioritized concern, then DuckDuck Go should be one among your choices. This is a search engine that uses information from sources like Wikipedia. According to the team behind this search engine, users have the privilege of better search functions, privacy protection and user information is not recorded.
The search engine features include ‘goodies’ or special search queries such as programming and calculations, browser extensions and most of all peace of mind.

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