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Alternatives for Google

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Some alternatives for Google as a general web search engine are:

  1. Kagi (requires payment to use.)
  2. Bing (cluttered with AI features now.)
  3. Yandex (primarily Russian, impressive reverse image search.)
  4. Brave Search (ignores underscores (_), making it unusable for coding.)
  5. Wiby (only searches small websites.)
  6. Mojeek (not very stable at time of review.)
  7. Kiddle (specially made for child audiences.)

There are many other alternative search engines available, specially that claim to be privacy-focused, such as DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia which plants trees with ad-revenue from your searches. However, these engines do not have their own index or web spider: they mainly return results that come from Bing, which means using them is like using Bing with a different theme. Although Kiddle is also powered by Google, it's worthy listing because it uses a manually curated set of websites.

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A screenshot of Kagi's search results page for the query "Christ the Redeemer."
A screenshot of Kagi's search results page.
A screenshot of Bing's results page for the query "solar eclipse 2024."
A screenshot of Bing's results page.
A screenshot of Yandex performing reverse image search for a Hammerfight image.
A screenshot of Yandex performing reverse image search for an image of Hammerfight, a Russian indie game.
A screenshot of Brave Search's results page for the query "pastel recipe".
A screenshot of Brave Search's results page.
A screenshot of Wiby's search engine results page for the query "game reviews."
A screenshot of Wiby's search engine results page.
A screenshot of Mojeek's search engine results page for the query "pão de queijo recipe."
A screenshot of Mojeek's search engine results page.
A screenshot of Kiddle's search engine results page for the query "the moon."
A screenshot of Kiddle's search engine results page.
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