For professional search The Internet requires specialized software, as well as specialized search engines and search services.

PROGRAMS

http://dr-watson.wix.com/home – the program is designed for exploring arrays text information in order to identify entities and connections between them. The result of the work is a report on the object under study.

http://www.fmsasg.com/ - one of the best programs in the world for visualizing connections and relationships Sentinel Vizualizer. The company has completely Russified its products and connected hotline in Russian.

http://www.newprosoft.com/ – “Web Content Extractor” is the most powerful, easy-to-use software for extracting data from web sites. It also has an effective Visual Web spider.

SiteSputnik – a software package that has no analogues in the world, allowing you to search and process its results on the Visible and Invisible Internet, using all the search engines necessary for the user.

WebSite-Watcher – allows you to monitor web pages, including password-protected ones, monitoring forums, RSS feeds, news groups, local files. Has a powerful filter system. Monitoring is carried out automatically and is delivered in a user-friendly form. A program with advanced functions costs 50 euros. Constantly updated.

http://www.scribd.com/ is the most popular platform in the world and increasingly used in Russia for posting various kinds of documents, books, etc. for free access with a very convenient search engine for titles, topics, etc.

http://www.atlasti.com/ is the most powerful and effective tool for qualitative information analysis available to individual users, small and even medium-sized businesses. The program is multifunctional and therefore useful. It combines the ability to create a unified information environment for working with various text, tabular, audio and video files as a single whole, as well as tools for qualitative analysis and visualization.

Ashampoo ClipFinder HD – an ever-increasing share of the information flow comes from video. Accordingly, competitive intelligence officers need tools that allow them to work with this format. One of such products is the presented free utility. It allows you to search for videos based on specified criteria on video file storage sites such as YouTube. The program is easy to use, displays all search results on one page with detailed information, titles, duration, time when the video was uploaded to the storage, etc. There is a Russian interface.

http://www.advego.ru/plagiatus/ – the program is made SEO optimizers, but is quite suitable as an Internet intelligence tool. Plagiarism shows the degree of uniqueness of the text, the sources of the text, and the percentage of text match. The program also checks the uniqueness of the specified URL. The program is free.

http://neiron.ru/toolbar/ – includes an add-on for combining Google search and Yandex, and also allows you to competitive analysis, based on assessing the effectiveness of sites and contextual advertising. Implemented as a plugin for FF and GC.

http://web-data-extractor.net/ is a universal solution for obtaining any data available on the Internet. Setting up cutting data from any page is done in a few mouse clicks. You just need to select the data area that you want to save and Datacol will automatically select a formula for cutting out this block.

CaptureSaver is a professional Internet research tool. Simply irreplaceable working programm, allowing you to capture, store and export any Internet information, including not only web pages, blogs, but also RSS news, email, images and much more. It has the widest functionality, an intuitive interface and a ridiculous price.

http://www.orbiscope.net/en/software.html – web monitoring system at more than affordable prices.

http://www.kbcrawl.co.uk/ – software for work, including on the “Invisible Internet”.

http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html – the program allows you to search using more than 90 search engines, using more than 10 parameters. Allows you to combine results, eliminate duplicates, block broken links, and show the most relevant results. Comes in free, personal and professional versions. Used by more than 20 million users.

Maltego is a fundamentally new software that allows you to establish the relationship of subjects, events and objects in real life and on the Internet.

SERVICES

new https://hunter.io/ – an effective service for detecting and checking email.

https://www.whatruns.com/ is an easy to use yet effective scanner to discover what is and isn't working on a website and what its security holes are. Also implemented as a plugin for Chrom.

https://www.crayon.co/ is an American budget platform for market and competitive intelligence on the Internet.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~bwong/octant/ – host identifier.

https://iplogger.ru/ – a simple and convenient service for determining someone else’s IP.

http://linkurio.us/ is a powerful new product for economic security workers and corruption investigators. Processes and visualizes huge amounts of unstructured information from financial sources.

http://www.intelsuite.com/en – English-language online platform for competitive intelligence and monitoring.

http://yewno.com/about/ is the first operating system for translating information into knowledge and visualizing unstructured information. Currently supports English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

https://start.avalancheonline.ru/landing/?next=%2F – forecasting and analytical services by Andrey Masalovich.

https://www.outwit.com/products/hub/ – a complete set of stand-alone programs for professional work in web 1.

https://github.com/search?q=user%3Acmlh+maltego – extensions for Maltego.

http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ – search engine for hosting, IP addresses, etc.

http://appfollow.ru/ – analysis of applications based on reviews, ASO optimization, positions in tops and search results for the App Store, Google Play and Windows Phone Store.

http://spiraldb.com/ is a service implemented as a plugin for Chrom, which allows you to get a lot of valuable information about any electronic resource.

https://millie.northernlight.com/dashboard.php?id=93 - a free service that collects and structures key information on industries and companies. It is possible to use information panels based on text analysis.

http://byratino.info/ – collection of factual data from publicly available sources on the Internet.

http://www.datafox.co/ – CI platform collects and analyzes information on companies of interest to clients. There is a demo.

https://unwiredlabs.com/home - a specialized application with an API for searching by geolocation of any device connected to the Internet.

http://visualping.io/ – a service for monitoring sites and, first of all, the photographs and images available on them. Even if the photo appeared for a second, it will be e-mail subscriber Has a plugin for Google Chrome.

http://spyonweb.com/ is a research tool that allows for in-depth analysis of any Internet resource.

http://bigvisor.ru/ – the service allows you to track advertising campaigns for certain segments of goods and services, or specific organizations.

http://www.itsec.pro/2013/09/microsoft-word.html – instructions for use by Artem Ageev Windows programs for competitive intelligence needs.

http://granoproject.org/ is an open source tool for researchers who track networks of connections between individuals and organizations in politics, economics, crime, etc. Allows you to connect, analyze and visualize information obtained from various sources, as well as show significant connections.

http://imgops.com/ – service for extracting metadata from graphic files and working with them.

http://sergeybelove.ru/tools/one-button-scan/ – a small online scanner for checking security holes in websites and other resources.

http://isce-library.net/epi.aspx – service for searching primary sources using a fragment of text in English

https://www.rivaliq.com/ is an effective tool for conducting competitive intelligence in Western, primarily European and American markets for goods and services.

http://watchthatpage.com/ is a service that allows you to automatically collect new information from monitored Internet resources. The service is free.

http://falcon.io/ is a kind of Rapportive for the Web. It is not a replacement for Rapportive, but provides additional tools. In contrast, Rapportive provides a general profile of a person, as if glued together from data from social networks and mentions on the web. http://watchthatpage.com/ - a service that allows you to automatically collect new information from monitored resources on the Internet. The service is free.

https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/update-scanner/ – add-on for Firefox. Monitors web page updates. Useful for websites that do not have news feeds (Atom or RSS).

http://agregator.pro/ – aggregator of news and media portals. Used by marketers, analysts, etc. to analyze news flows on certain topics.

http://price.apishops.com/ – automated web service for monitoring prices for selected product groups, specific online stores and other parameters.

http://www.la0.ru/ is a convenient and relevant service for analyzing links and backlinks to an Internet resource.

www.recordedfuture.com is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization, implemented as an online service built on cloud computing.

http://advse.ru/ is a service with the slogan “Find out everything about your competitors.” Allows you to obtain competitors' websites in accordance with search queries and analyze competitors' advertising campaigns in Google and Yandex.

http://spyonweb.com/ – the service allows you to identify sites with the same characteristics, including those using the same statistics service identifiers Google Analytics, IP addresses, etc.

http://www.connotate.com/solutions – a line of products for competitive intelligence, managing information flows and converting information into information assets. It includes both complex platforms and simple, cheap services that allow for effective monitoring along with information compression and obtaining only the necessary results.

http://www.clearci.com/ - competitive intelligence platform for businesses of various sizes from start-ups and small companies to Fortune 500 companies. Solved as saas.

http://startingpage.com/ is a Google add-on that allows you to search on Google without recording your IP address. Fully supports all Google search capabilities, including in Russian.

http://newspapermap.com/ is a unique service that is very useful for a competitive intelligence officer. Connects geolocation with an online media search engine. Those. you select the region you are interested in, or even a city, or language, see the place on the map and a list of online versions of newspapers and magazines, click on the appropriate button and read. Supports Russian language, very user-friendly interface.

http://infostream.com.ua/ is a very convenient news monitoring system “Infostream”, distinguished by a first-class selection and quite accessible to any wallet, from one of the classics of Internet search, D.V. Lande.

http://www.instapaper.com/ is a very simple and effective tool for saving the necessary web pages. Can be used on computers, iPhones, iPads, etc.

http://screen-scraper.com/ – allows you to automatically extract all information from web pages, download the vast majority of file formats, and automatically enter data into various forms. Saves downloaded files and pages in databases, performs many other extremely useful functions. Works on all major platforms, has fully functional free and very powerful professional versions.

http://www.mozenda.com/ - having several tariff plans and a web service of multifunctional web monitoring and delivery of information necessary for the user from selected sites, available even to small businesses.

http://www.recipdonor.com/ - the service allows you to automatically monitor everything that happens on competitors' websites.

http://www.spyfu.com/ – and this is if your competitors are foreign.

www.webground.su is a service for monitoring the Runet created by Internet search professionals, which includes all the major providers of information, news, etc., and is capable of individual monitoring settings to suit the user’s needs.

SEARCH ENGINES

https://www.idmarch.org/ is the best search engine for the world archive of pdf documents in terms of quality. Currently, more than 18 million pdf documents have been indexed, ranging from books to secret reports.

http://www.marketvisual.com/ is a unique search engine that allows you to search for owners and top management by full name, company name, position, or a combination thereof. The search results contain not only the objects you are looking for, but also their connections. Designed primarily for English-speaking countries.

http://worldc.am/ is a search engine for freely accessible photographs linked to geolocation.

https://app.echosec.net/ is a public search engine that describes itself as the most advanced analytical tool for law enforcement and security and intelligence professionals. Allows you to search for photos posted on various sites, social platforms and in social networks in relation to specific geolocation coordinates. There are currently seven data sources connected. By the end of the year their number will be more than 450. Thanks to Dementy for the tip.

http://www.quandl.com/ is a search engine for seven million financial, economic and social databases.

http://bitzakaz.ru/ – search engine for tenders and government orders with additional paid functions

Website-Finder - makes it possible to find sites that Google does not index well. The only limitation is that it only searches 30 websites for each keyword. The program is easy to use.

http://www.dtsearch.com/ is a powerful search engine that allows you to process terabytes of text. Works on desktop, web and intranet. Supports both static and dynamic data. Allows you to search in all MS Office programs. The search is carried out using phrases, words, tags, indexes and much more. The only federated search engine available. It has both paid and free versions.

http://www.strategator.com/ – searches, filters and aggregates information about the company from tens of thousands of web sources. Searches in the USA, Great Britain, major EEC countries. It is highly relevant, user-friendly, and has free and paid options ($14 per month).

http://www.shodanhq.com/ is an unusual search engine. Immediately after his appearance, he received the nickname “Google for hackers.” It does not search for pages, but determines IP addresses, types of routers, computers, servers and workstations located at a particular address, traces chains of DNS servers and allows you to implement many other interesting functions for competitive intelligence.

http://search.usa.gov/ is a search engine for websites and open databases of all US government agencies. The databases contain a lot of practical useful information, including for use in our country.

http://visual.ly/ – today visualization is increasingly used to present data. This is the first infographic search engine on the Web. Along with the search engine, the portal has powerful data visualization tools that do not require programming skills.

http://go.mail.ru/realtime – search for discussions of topics, events, objects, subjects in real or customizable time. The previously highly criticized search in Mail.ru works very effectively and provides interesting, relevant results.

Zanran is just launched, but already working great, the first and only search engine for data that extracts it from PDF files, EXCEL tables, data on HTML pages.

http://www.ciradar.com/Competitive-Analysis.aspx is one of the world's best information retrieval systems for competitive intelligence on the deep web. Retrieves almost all types of files in all formats on the topic of interest. Implemented as a web service. The prices are more than reasonable.

http://public.ru/ – Effective search and professional analysis of information, media archive since 1990. The online media library offers a wide range of information services: from access to electronic archives of Russian-language media publications and ready-made thematic press reviews to individual monitoring and exclusive analytical research based on press materials.

Cluuz is a young search engine with ample opportunities for competitive intelligence, especially on the English-language Internet. Allows you not only to find, but also to visualize and establish connections between people, companies, domains, e-mails, addresses, etc.

www.wolframalpha.com – the search engine of tomorrow. In response to a search request, it provides statistical and factual information available on the request object, including visualized information.

www.ist-budget.ru – universal search in databases of government procurement, tenders, auctions, etc.

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A search engine is a large and complex program designed to search for information on the Internet.

Have you ever wondered how what we use every day came to be, what types of things exist on the Internet, and why all studios only work with and? Such questions should not be put off until long box. Just 10 minutes and here's another topic of conversation that you can easily support.

How search engines appeared

A long time ago, when the Internet was young and green...

Users, who, it must be said, were very few, had enough of their own bookmarks. But this did not last long: soon it became difficult for a person to navigate the diversity that appeared on the Internet in a short time.

And in order to somehow streamline the chaos, Yahoo, DMOZ and other directories were invented (some still exist to this day), into which the authors added and sorted emerging sites into categories. For a while, life became easier.

But the Internet continued to expand, and soon the size of the catalogs became something mind-bogglingly gigantic. Then the developers first thought about searching inside directories, and only then about creating automated system indexing everything that is on the Internet to make it easier for all users.

This is how the first search robots appeared.

Which search engine was the first?

The first search engine is considered Wandex (well, confused with Yandex!).This and other early services were, of course, far from perfect. When responding to a search query, they returned something completely different from what we are used to seeing now, i.e. not the most relevant pages, and everything in a row, ignoring ranking. On January 1, 2012, Wandex was relaunched.

This is how the first PS began its work.What search engines are there?on the modern Internet? Attached is the list.

What types of search engines are there: kings of the dance floor

Surprisingly, there are those who argueHow search system better. I wouldn’t do this, simply because they are different and in general it all depends on the purpose and what kind of user you are.

Yandex

This is the most popular search engine in our country. LiveInternet claims that Yandex used by 50.9%, while Google accounts for 40.6% (data from June 2015).

There is such a myth that there are many times more commercial requests in Yandex than from its closest competitor. A couple of times I came across the idea that, thanks to regionalism honed over the years, the type of audience or its number may vary - this is the reason for Yandex’s primacy in commercial queries. So don't believe this. They're lying.

Google

Search engine Google system- the most popular everywhere except Russia :) It has a bunch of possibilities in different directions. In general, the undisputed world leader among search robots.

Google itself appeared around the same time as Yandex, and came to us in Russia only in 2004, when Yandex strengthened its position.

The process of searching on Google has already become a household word for many earthlings. But when I tell my mom “Google”, she still goes to look for the information she needs in Yandex :) She doesn’t know at allwhat search engines exist on the Internet.

What search engines are there: a list of little-known search engines

Most Internet users don't even knowWhat search engines are there besides Yandex?and Google. So here they are;) Meet us!

The search share of this search engine can hardly be called large, but the indicators are gradually growing. Although you should not miss the fact that these numbers directly depend on Odnoklassniki, Mail.ru mail and other things from the Mail corporation.

This is real old school. Just imagine: when this search engine appeared, some SEOs were just learning to walk. In general, Rambler had a chance to rule the show in, but this did not happen for a number of reasons. Currently, it is no longer quite a search engine, but a kind of set of services that use the Yandex engine as a search - for example, they have their own . Attendance, by the way, is quite decent: per day home page Rambler is visited by just over a million users.

Rambler also has a version Rambler Lite (all the same, only without weather, news, advertising and other things) and XRambler , which combines 15 search engines at once.

How many names has this search engine changed! For 8 years he managed to vilify the name MSN Search, then Windows Live Search, then shortened the previous name to Live Search and now came to the name Bing. Many argue that the search quality is close to the Google standard.

Now it is difficult to call Yahoo a search engine, since according to the agreement, all sites owned by Yahoo use the Bing search engine. Latest news You can find out about the agreement at Searchengines.

Webalta

Surely this so-called search engine is familiar to you. Have you had to pick it out like a tick from your browser?For a long time now, everyone has known about the dark affairs of this search engine. Alas, no one is interested in this PS. Users are only looking for articles on how to remove this crap from their computer.

Nygma

This search engine is significantly different from the rest. And if the index base of other search engines does not surprise anyone, then the ability to solve problems in chemistry and mathematics distinguishes Nigma from other search engines. Nigma also offers search for music, books, games and torrents.

The search engine, created by order of the Russian government, is considered the world's first state search engine. Offers a separate medical search (search for pharmacies, medicines and articles about diseases). A very convenient theme with “Convenient Country”, where all the recommendations that help the citizen are collected in one place. Here, for example, is the “Documents” section.

This PS is significantly different from the onewhat types of search engines are there on the Internet?. DuckDuckGo - search engine open source and an interesting policy of not using a “filter bubble”. For those who don’t know: a “filter bubble” is when a search engine shows in the search results only those search results that it (this PS) considers necessary for a specific user. At the same time, no one is interested in the opinion of the user himself. DuckDuckGo assures that using their search engine ensures that you get all the information that the search engine has.

“DuckDuckGo” is gaining momentum. Already this summer (2015), the creator of the PS reported three billion requests in annual terms.

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If my site is in Google and Yandex, will my site be at the top of the results in other, smaller search engines?

There is a very high probability that this will happen. Yandex and Google are developing their algorithms in the right direction and other search engines are following their example. There was a case when Google experts noticed that the Bing search engine not only copied their algorithms, but also their search results.

Why probability and not complete certainty? Because other search engines will not have time to adjust their ranking algorithms to the standard set by their more successful competitors.

Is it even worth promoting in Sputnik, Mail and other “our” search engines? Which search engine is better?

It is undoubtedly worth it in Mail.ru. There is some traffic there, or rather very little of it, but it is there - and these are clients. Sputnik and other search engines are a myth, like the social network “My World”, everyone knows that they exist, but no one has seen them :)

Creating new search engines is a rather utopian idea. Why do you think something new appears periodically?

Whoever owns the information owns the world. Look how many companies depend on search engines, and how many people don't know any alternatives? Who would refuse this? Any investment will be justified if you achieve results.

And as a consequence of this - loot, huge loot, endless money coming out of thin air, out of nothing... You don’t need either resources or people (I mean, you don’t need a million trillion Indians who rummage through the encyclopedia for every user request).

Currently, search quality does not affect the number of users. Take Google, for example: in Russia it had approximately 30-35% of the audience, but created the revolutionary Chrome browser and with its help increased its audience significantly.

I am sure that a search engine, even with modest technologies, but with some revolutionary approach to marketing can gain an audience and squeeze out part of the market.

Until recently, finding the necessary information in World Wide Web it wasn't that easy. But, thanks to the rapid development and emergence of new search engines, this process has become much more convenient and faster. In our today's review, the 10 most best services to search for various types of data that can find everything you need in the depths of the Internet.

1. Internet search engine - Bing

Bing is a famous Internet search engine that was created in June 2009. This service available in 40 languages. It has approximately 350 million monthly unique visitors.

2. Internet metasearch engine - AOL Search.com

AOL Search.com is an Internet metasearch engine that was founded in the United States of America in 1985. The monthly number of visitors to this service is approximately 75 million people. The position of CEO is occupied by Tim Armstrong.

3. Internet search engine - DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is an open source internet search engine that was launched in 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg. The company's headquarters are located in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The number of unique visitors using DuckDuckGo is about 13 million people per month.

4. Internet search engine - Ask.com

Ask.com is an internet search engine main feature which is the search for answers to questions. The service was founded in June 1996 in Berkeley, California by Garrett Gruner and David Wharton. The monthly number of unique visitors to this service is approximately 145 million people.

5. Internet search engine - Google

Google is the most famous Internet search engine, headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States of America. The company was founded on September 4, 1998 by Larry Page and Sergei Mikhailovich Brin. Its monthly number of unique visitors is about 1,100,000,000 people.

6. Internet metasearch system - MyWebSearch.com

MyWebSearch.com is an Internet metasearch engine that ranks 73rd on the list of most popular websites. It has approximately 60 million monthly unique visitors.

7. Internet metasearch engine - Infospace.com

The presented search engine was founded in 1996. Its headquarters are located in Bellevue, Washington, United States. Monthly number of unique visitors Infospace.com is approximately 24 million people.

8. Internet metasearch engine - WebCrawler.com

WebCrawler.com is an internet metasearch engine powered by Yahoo and Google. The company was founded in April 1994. It has approximately 65 million monthly unique visitors.

9. Internet metasearch engine - Info.com

Info.com is a metasearch engine headquartered in the UK capital London. Info.com has approximately 13 million monthly unique visitors.

10. Internet search engine – Yahoo

Internet search engine system called - Yahoo, which was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Feal. General Director company is Marissa Mayer. Its monthly number of unique visitors is approximately 300 million people. The service's headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California, United States of America.

And lovers of mobile devices and computer technology will probably be interested in looking at

The search engine is one of the key layers of the Internet, along with content and the browser. Yandex search engine or similar systems (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and others) allow the user to search for information on the World Wide Web by formulating a query.

The job of the search engine is to find this query ( keyword or phrase) all documents, pages, videos, that is, all content.

Which search engine is the best? Are there alternative options, something other than Google and Yandex? Which Internet search engine is more suitable for scanning English-language sources or, for example, music? This is exactly what the article will discuss.

Rating: market leaders

If we talk about the world as a whole, then Google search engine is the most popular search engine. The corporation occupies almost 70% of the market. The second position in the ranking is occupied by Bing (share - 12.26%). The Baidu system is fighting for second place (6.48% as of September 2015). From time to time they change places.

So, for example, in 2014, the “forces” were distributed differently: the first place was occupied by Google search engine with 68.69%, the second by Baidu (17.7%), the third by Bing with a market capitalization of 6, 22%.

But global data is very generalized. Which search engine is the best?

In China, for example, a very small percentage of the population scans with Google; the majority uses the domestic Soso system. IN South Korea Most of the residents use their own development - the Internet search engine Naver. However, in the last few months the number of requests in this system has begun to decline rapidly.

In Japan and Taiwan, users are the most likely to use Yahoo!

Rating: Russian-language systems

Which search engine is the best? In Russia, search engine rankings are not at all similar to the global ones. The market leader in the Russian-language segment of the Internet is Yandex, which is used by more than 55% of users.

In second place is Google with a result of 37.6%. According to the LiveInternet service, the coverage of Russian-language search queries on the World Wide Web was distributed as follows:

1. Universal search engines: Google (37.6%), Bing (0.3%), Yahoo! (0.1%).
2. English-speaking and international (AskJeeves, for example).
3. Russian-language search engines: Yandex (56.2%), Mail (5.3%), Rambler (0.5%).

DuckDuckGo

A conversation about alternative search engines should start with the DuckDuckGo search engine. This is a fairly well-known and widespread open source system. DuckDuckGo servers are located in the United States of America. The search results are quite extensive, since the system uses not only its own algorithms, but also the results of some other sources, for example, Wikipedia, the Bing search engine and Yahoo!

DuckDuckGo search engine provides maximum security personal information user, privacy and confidentiality. The system does not collect any data about users, does not store history and limits the use of cookies as much as possible.

The difference between DuckDuckGo is that this system does not personalize search results, as other systems do. In Google or Yandex, for example, the user sees only information that is consistent with his preferences. But DuckDuckGo creates a real picture and allows you to get rid of intrusive specific advertising. The search service easily searches for information on foreign languages, while Yandex and Google by default give preference to Russian-language sources, even if the query is entered in English, German or another language.

The system allows you to customize the interface: you can change colors, fonts, links and other parameters in just a few clicks.

This search engine is still far from the giant Google, but the duckling is developing, so it is quite possible that in the future DuckDuckGo will take one of the leading positions. The team has created an excellent product that provides an anonymous, fast and functional search that deserves the user's attention.

NotEvil

This is a system that searches the anonymous Tor network. The search engine is preinstalled in the browser of the same name. Why is notEvil better? It “goes” where Google or Yandex search engines cannot reach. In general, there are a lot of resources on the Tor network that cannot be visited on the “regular” (law-abiding) Internet. This is a kind of platform within the network with its own social platforms, torrent trackers, media, blogs, shopping centers, forums, libraries and so on.

By the way, notEvil is not the only search engine of its kind. There is also Look, which is available by default in the same Tor browser, and TORCH is one of the oldest search engines on the anonymous network.

YaCy

The free search engine YaCy is a completely different approach to organizing searches on the World Wide Web. The system operates on the P2P principle. This means that each computer on which the module is installed independently scans the Internet, and then all the results obtained are collected into a single database that can be used by all YaCy users.

The system is completely independent, autonomous, and ensures the anonymity of each user. YaCy is suitable for supporters of an open Internet that is not influenced by large corporations and government agencies.

The search engine is not very useful in everyday life, but in the future it is a worthy alternative to Google, even from the point of view of organizing the process of searching for information.

Pipl

Pipl is a system designed to search for information about a specific person. The developers claim that the search engine’s algorithms search for people more efficiently than Google or Yandex, which are widespread throughout the world.

Priority sources are profiles on social networks, comments, lists of participants, databases where various data about people are published, for example, databases of court decisions. But there is also a drawback. Pipl does not have access to Russian databases, so it will only be useful for searching information about US citizens.

FindSounds

Which search engine is the best? If you need to find music or sounds, then, of course, FindSounds is the best. This is a specialized search engine with a list of tags. Here you can choose required format audio file or its quality. All search results are available for download.

Wolfram|Alpha

This system does not produce pages that contain the information the user needs, but a finished result. For example, maps, graphs, tables, short answers. The service is ideal for calculating data and searching for specific facts. The search engine does not understand all queries yet, but is constantly evolving.

With Wolfram|Alpha it is convenient, for example, to compare parameters for setting up a camera, smartphone or laptop. Also calculate the level of alcohol in the blood (the system asks the user for weight and height, the amount drunk, time, and then tells how long it will take for the alcohol to be completely eliminated from the body).

The tool can convert shoe and clothing sizes, count calories, view exchange rates, or tune a musical instrument.

Dogpile

Dogpile displays results from all common search engines at once. The service uses an improved algorithm and, as the developers assure, generates the best results on the Internet. In addition, there are few advertisements. You can try using Dogpile if the information you need is not found in standard Google or Yandex.

BoardReader

This system searches for information on forums, surveys, question and answer services, and social communities, narrowing the search field to social platforms. You can set filters: language and publication date, site name, etc.

The search engine can be useful to advertising specialists who are interested in the opinion of the audience.

Finally

Often alternative search engines are fleeting. They appear as quickly as they die. Most alternative systems today specialize in a narrow niche or test an original algorithm in generating search results.

In the context of describing alternative search engines, the criterion “better” does not at all mean “better in everything.” Each of the services listed above gives a specific user something that is not available in Google or Yandex. In any case, check out alternative options(against the background that the system seems to be practically monopolized by search giants) is interesting and useful to every user.

In 2017, when the Internet contains millions of terabytes of information and every user's movement on the Internet is recorded, there is no way to do without anonymous search engines. After all, it is very important for all of us to get to the necessary data as quickly and as safely as possible. But do our dear readers know exactly how search engines translate entered characters into code? Do you realize that all requests immediately go to the marketing departments of corporations?

The principle of operation of conventional search engines in 2017: anonymity at zero

Google

Let's go to Google search and see how it displays a link to a site, for example, whoer.net:

Yandex search

And this is how Yandex does it:

As you can see, it’s not very obvious. In fact, this was done on purpose, and the typing is nothing more than a script that will process the “click” on the link and remember the user’s action.
Today on our website we will talk about anonymous search engines that do not “pollute” the search with unnecessary scripts and do not store data about your search queries.

The most popular anonymous search engine for 2017 is DuckDuck, which in anonymous Tor browser is set as the default search engine.

DuckDuck is also available for selection in Firefox browsers and Opera. The private search engine is famous for the fact that it does not use scripts in links and does not display advertising and viral sites in search results. DuckDuckGo allows the user to specify special characters and symbols in the query. And, as we have already said, the search engine does not monitor user actions.

Displaying query results in the anonymous search engine DuckDuck

As you can see, there are no hidden behavioral scripts here, but only a direct link!

Benefits of DuckDuckGo

Another positive aspect of the DuckDuckGo system is its full support for the https protocol. For now, this setting is disabled at the first user request, but it can be easily activated through the convenient main menu of the search engine. After performing this action, all searches will undergo additional encryption.

IxQuick is called the most confidential search engine in 2017.

The servers of this search engine are “equipped” with a powerful metasearch system. This means the following: after a search request, IxQuick displays results from a dozen search engines at once, combining them in its search window and assigning each link a unique rating, which is used for ranking.
The screenshot above shows that the main queries are taken from Google, so you don’t have to worry about the relevance of the results.

Privacy settings in the anonymous search engine IxQuick

Despite all the production capacity, no “surveillance” is carried out on users; moreover, users’ IP addresses are not even recorded. However, each user can allow their search settings to be saved on the anonymous search engine server in the form of cookies, which will either be deleted in automatic mode once every three months, or updated every time you visit the IxQuick home page.

Pros and cons of IxQuick

A huge advantage of IxQuick is metasearch associated with the anonymity of queries that the search robot “sweeps” using a complex network of data redirection from the original search engine to the user.
Among the disadvantages of the IxQuick anonymous search, we can only note the fact that there is no Russian language in the interface.

Already from the screenshot, an attentive reader can conclude that StartPage is a clone of the anonymous search engine IxQuick. That’s right: the history of this project originated earlier than IxQuick, but despite the fact that the site did not analyze or save the user’s search results, nevertheless, it lost the competition and was soon bought out by a more powerful rival.
However, this site is still working, so we can recommend using a combination: in IxQuick, configure Bing as the main query provider, and in StartPage, set Google search as the default. This way you will get double anonymous search, easily comparing the results of your search data.