25 Most Popular Search Engines On The Internet

I know by now we’re all used to Google, Yahoo and Bing as the 3 most popular search engines but of late I’ve been a little bit curious as to which are the other most popular search engines so I put myself to task and came up with a detailed list of the 25 most popular search engines on the internet and which I hope will also help anyone who has ever been in my earlier predicament. Enjoy!

25 Most Popular Search Engines On The Internet

#	Search Engine	Alexa Rank	Backlinks	Year Created
1	Google	1	4,726,755	1998
2	Yahoo!	4	1,841,031	1995
3	Baidu	5	301,297	2000
4	Bing	16	157,981	1998
5	Ask	42	53,471	1996
6	My Web Search	60	5,205	2001
7	AOL	66	185,502	2005
8	Sogou	85	30,692	2004
9	Blekko	1126	6,895	2010
10	WebCrawler	1711	11,214	1994
11	DuckDuckGo	3001	10,773	2008
12	Lycos	3300	37,498	1994
13	Dogpile	3348	12,275	1996
14	Yandex	3483	4,916	1997
15	Info	4481	2,526	2003
16	Search.com	4835	9,970
17	Excite	5006	17,005	1995
18	GoodSearch	7185	10,920	2005
19	AltaVista	10517	48,122	1995
20	Metacrawler	18829	7,216	1994
21	Gigablast	21661	3,886	2000
22	Netscape	27652	61,801	1994
23	HotBot	47076	11,309	1996
24	Mamma	63313	5,104	1996
25	Clusty	72927	2,972	2004

NB: The above are just SOME of the most popular search engines.

Now that you’ve seen which the most popular search engines are, I believe it’s time that I informed you how I came up with the above list (This section is intended to show you that I didn’t cook up anything)

Steps On How I Came Up With The Above 25 Most Popular Search Engines On The Internet

1. I consulted my good friend Google a.k.a the King of the web, who then showed me a couple of sites detailing which are the most popular search engines on the internet.
2. I headed over to Alexa where I searched for the Alexa Rank plus the number of Backlinks (i.e. sites linking in) for the most popular search engines list that I had compiled from the above step.
3. I used both Wikipedia and Google to get the dates as to when the above search engines were created.
4. I then came up with a table detailing which were the most popular search engines together with their respective Alexa Rank’s, Backlinks and year of creation.

We’ll now go ahead and look at the market share for the most popular search engines.

Search Engine Market Share For The Most Popular Search Engines

#	Search Engine	Market Share (%)
1	Google	80.10
2	Bing	9.58
3	Yahoo!	7.13
4	AOL	1.78
5	Ask	1.41
6	Other	0.00

How I Came Up With The Above Search Engine Market Share

I used Stat Owl  to come up with the above market share statistic for the most popular search engines but I have to say I necessarily don’t agree with the underlined market share of the “Other” search engines which they listed as 0.00%. Statistically speaking, I think the “Other” search engines should at least have a 1% market share.

In this respect, I decided to come up with an “adjusted” statistic of the above search engine market share.

How I Came Up With The Adjusted Search Engine Market Share For The Most Popular Search Engines

1. I hypothesized that the “Other” search engines needed to have at least 1% market share
2. I got the 1% of each of the other search engines
3. I deducted the 1% I got above from the respective search engine
4. I then added 1% to the “Other” search engines

For the mathematical guys, here’s what I mean:

1% x 80.10%=0.00801

1% x 9.58=0.000958

1% x 7.13=0.000713

1% x 1.78=0.000178

1% x 1.41=0.000141

You will notice that the respective results adds up to 1% i.e. 0.00801+0.000958+0.000713+0.000178+0.000141=0.01 (1%)

I then deducted the above values from their respective percentages i.e.

80.10%-0.801%=79.299%

9.58%-0.0958%=9.4842%

7.13%-0.0713%=7.0587%

1.78%-0.0178%=1.7622%

1.41%-0.0141%=1.3959%

Then I had the data I wanted to come up with the below table of the adjusted search engine market share for the most popular search engines.

#	Search Engine	Market Share (%)
1	Google	79.299
2	Bing	9.4842
3	Yahoo!	7.0587
4	AOL	1.7622
5	Ask	1.3959
6	Other	1.00

NB: This is just a hypothesis

As always, feel free to let us know what your thoughts are on the “25 Most Popular Search Engines On The Internet”; I’d certainly love to hear from you!