Google is in a dominant position in many countries, including France. With more than 90% of the search market in France, the American search engine enjoys a position that annoys more than one publisher and many Internet users concerned about their privacy. Here are 12 alternatives to Google for searching the web.
1- Bing, Microsoft's search engine
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| Bing, Microsoft's search engine |
Eternal competitor of Google, Bing stands out from the market leader by a much richer home page highlighting one photo per day (which can be downloaded for free) and access to the latest hot news from the country in which we is located.
If the search experience is less rich than Google, Bing's search results will satisfy most users.
2- DuckDuckGo, the anti-tracking search engine for users
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| DuckDuckGo, one of the best alternatives to Google |
If Bing track as much as Google users, DuckDuckGo is an anti-user search engine. It thus does not collect any personal data on people who perform recehrches via its engine. Drawing heavily on Google, DuckDuckGo offers its users "Instant Answers" directly in its search results with rich formats, especially on searches for films, music or recipes.
Fully customizable, DuckDuckGo offers different research themes to its users. Any user can also fully customize the look of the search engine by choosing their own colors.
3- Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees
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| Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees |
Ecosia is an interesting search engine through its environmental approach. By carrying out research on this search engine, you participate in the planting of trees in Burkina Fasso, Madagascar and Peru. 80% of the advertising revenue generated by Ecosia is used for planting trees.
4- Qwant, the search engine made in France which respects your privacy
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| Qwant, the alternative to Google Made In France |
Qwant is a young search engine launched in 2013. Not collecting personal data like DuckDuckGo, the French search engine offers an original search interface divided into 3 columns: search results, news and results on social networks .
5- Lilo.org: the eco-citizen search engine
The search engine Lilo.org is a search engine like no other that uses its revenues to finance social and environmental projects.
The simple fact of using it therefore contributes to the funding of citizen projects.
6- YouCare: the search engine that thinks of animals
Youcare.world is a unique French search engine since it can finance meals for abandoned animals thanks to advertising revenue from online searches.
At the time of writing, no less than 65,905 meals have already been funded.
7- Yahoo ! another possible alternative to Google
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| The Yahoo! search engine home page |
Despite its low awareness in France, Yahoo! remains one of the most used search engines in the world. In Asia, the engine that offers a search interface similar to that of Bing remains very popular.
8- Startpage.com: the most private search engine in the world?
Startpage.com has proclaimed itself the most private search engine in the world. Concretely, it pays Google to be able to use its search results but deletes all of the advertising trackers before returning the search results to you.
9- Blackle: the search engine that saves kw / H
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What will differentiate Blackle from Google? Not much except the fact that the all-black search interface saves you electricity and that a counter is added to the home page of this alternative search engine.
10- SearX.me: the hackable and privacy-friendly search engine
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SearX.me is an open source search engine that respects the privacy of its users.
11- Yandex: the Russian alternative to Google
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If you are not Russian, Yandex, the Russian alternative to Google will be of little use to you (unless you want to use Yandex Metrica as a powerful alternative to Google Analytics).
12- Baidu: the Chinese alternative to Google
China may be one of the most important markets in the world, but Google is little used there. Baidu is one of the Chinese’s favorite search engines.
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