{"id":2374,"date":"2016-02-25T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.searchenginewatch.com\/2016\/02\/25\/say-goodbye-to-google-14-alternative-search-engines\/"},"modified":"2020-02-26T05:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:49:56","slug":"say-goodbye-to-google-14-alternative-search-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/2016\/02\/25\/say-goodbye-to-google-14-alternative-search-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Say goodbye to Google: 14 alternative search engines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well it\u2019s been a big week for search, I think we can all agree. <\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a regular Google user (65% of you globally<\/a>) then you\u2019ll have noticed some changes, both good and bad.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I won\u2019t debate the merits of these\u00a0improvements, we\u2019ve done that already here:\u00a0Google kills Right Hand Side Ads<\/a>\u00a0and here:\u00a0Google launches Accelerated Mobile Pages<\/a>, but there’s a definite feeling of vexation that appears to be coming to a head.<\/p>\n

Deep breath…<\/p>\n

As the paid search space increases in \u2018top-heaviness\u2019, as organic results get pushed further off the first SERP, as the Knowledge Graph scrapes more and more publisher content and continues to make it pointless to click through to a website, and as our longstanding feelings of unfairness over Google’s monopoly and\u00a0tax balance<\/a>\u00a0become more acute, now more than ever we feel there should be\u00a0another, viable search engine<\/a> alternative.<\/p>\n

There was a point not that long ago when you could easily divide people between those that used Google<\/a>, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and AltaVista. Now it\u2019s got to the point where if you\u2019re not using Google<\/a>, you\u2019re not really using the internet properly.<\/p>\n

Right now though maybe we should be paying more attention to the alternatives. Maybe our daily lives and, for some of us, careers shouldn’t\u00a0need to balance on the fickle algorithm changes of the world\u2019s most valuable company.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see what else is out there in the non-Google world.\u00a0It\u2019s not that scary, I promise. Although you may want to bring a coat.<\/p>\n

Please note: this is an update of\u00a0an article<\/a> published on SEW in May 2014, we felt like it needed sprucing up especially many of the listed engines (Blekko, Topsy) are no longer with us.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bing<\/h2>\n

Microsoft\u2019s search engine<\/a> is the second most popular search engine<\/a> in the world, with 15.8% of the search market.<\/p>\n

\"Bing<\/a><\/p>\n

But why should you use Bing? Lifehacker<\/a> has some great articles where they try to convince themselves as much as anyone else why Bing is a serious contender to Google. Plus points include:<\/p>\n