Until recently, it was not so easy to find the necessary information on the World Wide Web. But, thanks to the rapid development and the 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 kinds of data that are able to find everything that is required in the depths of the Internet.
1. Internet search engine - Bing
Bing is a well-known Internet search engine that was established in June 2009. This service is available in 40 languages. Its monthly number of unique visitors is approximately 350 million.
2. Internet Metasearch System - AOL Search.com
AOL Search.com is a metasearch Internet system that was founded in the United States of America in 1985. The monthly number of visitors to this service is approximately 75 million. Tim Armstrong is the CEO.
3. Internet search engine - DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo- This internet search engine with open source code which was launched in 2008 by Gabrielm Weinberg. The company is headquartered 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, the main feature of 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.
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, Sergey Mikhailovich Brin. Its monthly number of unique visitors is about 1,100,000,000.
6. Metasearch Internet System - MyWebSearch.com
MyWebSearch.com is an Internet metasearch engine that is ranked 73rd on the list of the most popular websites. Its monthly number of unique visitors is approximately 60 million.
7. Internet metasearch system - 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 system - WebCrawler.com
WebCrawler.com Is an Internet metasearch engine powered by Yahoo and Google. The company was founded in April 1994. Its monthly number of unique visitors is approximately 65 million.
9. Internet metasearch system - Info.com
Info.com is a metasearch system headquartered in London, the capital of Great Britain. Info.com has approximately 13 million unique visitors every month.
10. Internet search engine - Yahoo
An Internet search engine called - Yahoo which was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Phil. The CEO of the company is Marissa Mayer. Its monthly number of unique visitors is approximately 300 million. The service is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States of America.
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The modern Internet is hard to imagine without search engines. They process billions of requests every day through desktop browsers and mobile applications... The most sophisticated algorithms literally predict the actions of users, suggest possible options for the input data and give the most accurate results.
But what is the best search engine on the web today? Why do we give preference to a particular search engine? In our article, we will analyze which search engines have gained the most popularity and what are their fundamental differences.
Search engine ranking in the world
First, let's find out which search engines are the most popular in the world. To do this, let's turn to the data provided by the reputable analytical agency NetMarketShare. This table displays the top 5 search engines and the percentage of requests from users of personal computers for 2017:
It is easy to see that in both positions the search engine from Google is in the lead with the maximum lead over its competitors. Moreover, for mobile Google devices is essentially a monopolist, handling 93% of all search queries. This is due to the widespread use of smartphones on the Android OS.
Besides, Google is one of the most minimalistic search engines out there. On the main page, the user sees only the logo and the search bar. Also, users are attracted by interesting doodles - Google logos that are redrawn in honor of a specific date or event. Very often, such doodles are made interactive. Thus, according to all of the above indicators, Google is by far the best search engine.
In second place in popularity, both on PCs and smartphones, the Chinese search engine Baidu has firmly established itself. The fact is that this service is the only one available in China - 92% of the total population use it. From time to time, Baidu tries to expand its geographical boundaries, but it has not gained popularity in other countries. This is largely due to the rather aggressive promotion policy and the conflict between search engine extensions and antiviruses.
Bing is the search engine from Microsoft that is most often used by personal computer owners in the United States. A small percentage of requests with mobile devices due to the fact that smartphones from Microsoft are gradually leaving the market.
Yahoo! Is one of the oldest search engines, which was created in 1995. Basically, it is used by residents of the USA, Great Britain and some countries of Southeast Asia.
The search engine from Yandex was only in the top five for requests from a PC. A small percentage of the total number of requests is also due to the fact that users of Russia and the CIS countries use the domestic search engine. And the Dogpile service closes the top 5 in popularity of search engines for mobile devices. Its main audience is residents of the USA, Canada and Europe.
Search engine ranking in Russia
Find out which is the best search engine in the Russian Internet segment of Runet with the help of the data from the LiveInternet counter and the Seo-auditor analytical service.
LiveInternet counter takes into account search queries from both PC and mobile platforms... As a result, the popularity rating of search engines in Russia looks like this:
The two main competitors, Google and Yandex, are leading by a wide margin. Both search engines are different high speed and work efficiency. In addition, each service has its own unique features. For example, a search engine from Google gives clear and concise information about each site, and also takes into account the quality of the pages in the search results. Yandex pays great attention to its additional services, which are connected with each request in a search engine.
The third most popular search engine is Mail.ru. Many experts point out that this service well-developed search algorithms, fast update of news on the main page. On the other hand, Mail also lacks bugs. First of all, it is a lack of additional services and an unfinished anti-spam filter.
The once popular Rambler now processes only 0.2% of the total number of search queries on the Russian Internet. Some time ago the service did overhaul: the search engine changed its logo and the main page was redrawn from scratch. However, alas, this did not help to rise in the ranking of search engines.
Nevertheless, Rambler has its own obvious merits. For example, an associative search system. If the user forgets to change the layout and types in the word vepsrf, the search engine returns results for the query "Music". Now you will not surprise anyone with this system, only Rambler was the first search engine on the RuNet that was able to qualitatively implement such an algorithm.
Less than 200 thousand requests per year were processed by the Bing search engine. As mentioned above, Microsoft's service is popular mainly in the West, and, most likely, most of the requests on the Runet via Bing are sent from smartphones and PCs of foreigners working in Russia.
Similar data on the popularity of search engines can be observed in the research of the analytical agency Seo-auditor. Compare the numbers as of January and November 2017:
Comparing the data of Yandex.Metrica, SpyLog / Openstat, LiveInternet, Hotlog, Google and Yandex. In addition, it is noticeable how the share of requests through the search engines Mail, Rambler and Bing has decreased over the year.
Search mobile applications
Among the top five most popular search engines, branded mobile applications are available from Google, Yandex and Bing. To find out how each utility is different, we tested search engines on a powerful and productive smartphone. As test request we used one of the most popular, at the moment, not only in Russia, but all over the world - Star Wars 8. The result can be seen in the video below:
Google in its mobile search engine is guided by the same principle as in the desktop version - a minimum of interface elements. The search term can be entered as with onscreen keyboard and voice. A clear hierarchy can be traced in the search engine results:
- Film reviews and ratings
- Schedule of screenings in city cinemas
- YouTube Trailers
- List of film actors
- Related Searches
- Links to sites.
A similar picture can be observed in the search engine from Yandex. The Russian service also copies the main version in its application. The main page contains useful services and news, and the search bar is pinned to the bottom of the screen. The results are distributed as follows:
- Trailers and videos on Yandex.Video
- Schedule of screenings in cinemas
- Link to Wikipedia
- List of actors
- Related Searches
- Links to the site (the first link being the movie page on Kinopoisk, which belongs to Yandex).
A separate feature of Yandex is the voice assistant Alice, with which you can not only find the information you need, but also pass the time in a pleasant and sometimes funny conversation with a digital algorithm.
The Bing app, like Google, follows the path of conciseness. The main screen has a search button on beautiful background... By clicking on the magnifying glass, the user is taken to the search engine page. Despite the fact that the interface is not Russified, the application quickly produces the desired results. However, unlike Google and Yandex, Bing is limited only to links to sites without additional services included.
Alternative search engines
In addition to the most popular search engines like Yandex and Google, there are many interesting search services on the Web that, in terms of their functions, can become a good alternative to recognized giants. We have selected the 5 most interesting systems that can be used both on PCs and smartphones.
A search engine based on three basic principles:
- Lack of personal data storage
- No intrusive ads based on user requests
- Lack of tracking user actions.
Thus, DuckDuckGo will be appreciated by those who prefer online privacy and want to receive objective information, without regard to past search behavior on the Internet. In addition, DuckDuckGo is not geographically tied to the user. This means that information can be searched for and received in any language, while Yandex and Google give preference to Russian-language resources, even if you type in a request in English.
YaCy
Decentralized search engine that does not have a single server and owner. YaCy is a network of users' computers on which special program... Each PC independently scans the Network and collects the information received into a common database. Each node on the YaCy network is autonomous and therefore not subject to government or corporate censorship.
The only drawback for the domestic user is that YaCy is not Russified.
Pipl
Pipl is a system designed to search for specific users on the web. Sophisticated algorithms collect all the data about a person from profiles in social networks, comments, open databases, and so on. At the moment, the Pipl search database has collected data on more than 3 billion people.
Runet search for Pipl is still quite challenging task... So this search engine will be more useful to those who are looking for specific users in Europe, USA or Canada.
A question-answer system, a search engine based on a knowledge base and a set of computational algorithms. Unlike other search engines, Wolfram | Alpha does not display a list of links for queries, but generates a complete response based on a knowledge base of history, culture, science, cinematography, theater and much more. In addition, the algorithm connects data about famous people and pages on the web.
For example, at the request of Star Wars films, the search engine gives out a list of all films in the cinematic universe, for each of which you can watch an individual information card... Followed by a selection of movie posters and detailed information about the fees in cinemas.
Wolfram | Alpha is constantly expanding its database to more accurately display the most relevant information on demand. For students, journalists, analysts and academics, Wolfram | Alpha is arguably the best search engine, as it gives more than just text information, but also compiles various graphs, tables and diagrams for greater clarity.
We have introduced you to the most popular search engines. Of course, it is quite difficult to call a certain search engine the best in the world. Each system has its own set of tools that attract certain users. What search engine do you use most often? Tell us about your impressions in the comments to this article!
Hello dear readers of the blog site. , then its few users had enough of their own bookmarks. However, as you remember, it happened exponentially, and very soon it became more difficult to navigate in all its diversity.
Then directories appeared (Yahu, Dmoz and others), in which their authors added and sorted various sites into categories. This immediately made life easier for the then, not yet very numerous users. global network... Many of these directories are still alive today.
But after a while, the size of their databases became so large that the developers first thought about creating a search within them, and then about creating an automated system for indexing all Internet content in order to make it available to everyone.
The main search engines of the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet
As you can imagine, this idea was realized with overwhelming success, but, however, everything turned out well only for a handful of select companies that managed not to disappear on the Internet. Almost all the search engines that appeared on the first wave have now either disappeared, or vegetated, or were bought by more successful competitors.
The search engine is a very complex and, importantly, a very resource-intensive mechanism (meaning not only material resources, but also human resources). Behind the seemingly simple, or its ascetic analogue from Google, there are thousands of employees, hundreds of thousands of servers and many billions of investments that are necessary for this colossus to continue to work and remain competitive.
Entering this market now and starting from scratch is more of a utopia than real business project. For example, one of the richest corporations in the world, Microsoft, has been trying to gain a foothold in the search market for decades, and only now their search engine Bing is slowly beginning to meet their expectations. And before that there was a whole series of failures and failures.
What can we say about entering this market without much financial influence. For example, our domestic search engine Nigma has a lot of useful and innovative things in its arsenal, but their attendance is thousands of times inferior to the leaders of the Russian market. For example, take a look at Yandex's daily audience:
In this regard, we can assume that the list of the main (best and most successful) search engines of the Runet and the entire Internet has already been formed and the whole intrigue lies only in who will eat whom in the end, well, or how their percentage will be distributed if they all survive and stay afloat.
Search engine market in Russia it is very clearly visible and here, probably, two or three main players and a couple of minor ones can be distinguished. In general, a rather unique situation has developed in Runet, which, as I understand it, repeated itself only in two more countries in the world.
I'm talking about the fact that the search engine Google, having come to Russia in 2004, has not been able to seize the leadership so far. In fact, they tried to buy Yandex around this period, but something did not work out there, and now "our Russia" together with the Czech Republic and China are the places where the almighty Google, if not defeated, then at least met with serious resistance.
In fact, see the current state of affairs among the best search engines of the Russian Internet anyone can. It will be enough to insert this URL into the address bar of your browser:
Http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/ru/searches.html?period=month;total=yes
The fact is that most of them use it on their sites, and this URL allows you to see the statistics of visitors from various search engines to all sites that belong to the RU domain zone.
After entering the given Url, you will see a picture that is not very attractive and presentable, but it reflects well the essence of the matter. Pay attention to the top five search engines from which sites in Russian receive traffic:
Yes, of course, not all resources with Russian-language content are located in this zone. There are also SU and RF, and common areas such as COM or NET are full of Internet projects focused on Runet, but nevertheless, the sample is quite representative.
This dependence can be formalized in a more colorful way, as, for example, someone on the network did for their presentation:
This does not change the essence. There are a couple of leaders and a few very, very far behind search engines. By the way, I have already written about many of them. Sometimes it is quite entertaining to plunge into a success story or, conversely, delve into the reasons for the failures of once promising search engines.
So, in order of importance for Russia and Runet as a whole, I will list them and give them brief characteristics:
Search in Google has already become a household name for many inhabitants of the planet - you can read about that at the link. In this search engine I liked the option "translate results", when you received answers from all over the world, but in your native language, but now, unfortunately, it is not available (at least on google.ru).
The quality of their output (Search Engine Result Page) has also puzzled me lately. Personally, I always first use the runet mirror search engine (there is, well, I'm used to it) and only not finding an intelligible answer there, I turn to Google.
Usually their issuance made me happy, but lately it has only puzzled me - sometimes such nonsense climbs out. It is possible that their struggle to increase income with contextual advertising and the constant reshuffling of the issue in order to discredit Seo promotion can be counterproductive. In any case, this search engine has a competitor in Runet, and what kind.
I think that hardly anyone will specifically go to Go.mail.ru to search on the Russian Internet. Therefore, the traffic on entertainment projects from this search engine can be significantly more than ten percent. The owners of such projects should pay attention to this system.
However, in addition to the pronounced leaders in the search engine market of the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet, there are several other players whose share is quite low, but nevertheless the very fact of their existence makes us say a few words about them.
Runet search engines from the second echelon
Internet-wide search engines
By and large, on the scale of the entire Internet, there is only one serious player - Google... This is the undisputed leader, but he still has some competition.
First, it's still the same Bing, which, for example, has a very good position in the American market, especially considering that its engine is also used on all Yahu services (almost a third of the entire US search market).
Well, and secondly, due to the huge share of users from China in the total number of Internet users, their main search engine called Baidu wedges into the distribution of places on the world Olympus. It was born in 2000 and now its share is about 80% of the entire national audience in China.
It is difficult to say anything more intelligible about Baidu, but on the Internet there are judgments that places in his Top are occupied not only by the sites most relevant to the query, but also by those who paid for it (directly to the search engine, and not to the Seo office). Of course, this applies primarily to commercial issuance.
In general, looking at the statistics, it becomes clear why Google there easily goes to the fact to worsen its search results in exchange for increased profits from contextual advertising. In fact, they are not afraid of the churn of users, because in most cases they have no special place to go. This situation is somewhat sad, but let's see what happens next.
By the way, in order to further complicate the life of optimizers, and maybe to maintain the peace of mind of the users of this search engine, Google has recently been using encryption when transferring requests from the user's browser to the search bar. Soon it will no longer be possible to see in the statistics of visitor counters for which requests users from Google came to you.
Of course, in addition to the search engines voiced in this publication, there are not one thousand others - regional, specialized, exotic, etc. It will not be possible to try to list and describe them all within the framework of one article, and, probably, it is not necessary. I'd rather say a few words about how difficult it is to create a search engine and how not easy and not cheap to keep it up to date.
The vast majority of systems operate on similar principles (read about and about) and pursue the same goal - to give users an answer to their question. Moreover, this answer must be relevant (corresponding to the question), exhaustive and, which is not unimportant, topical (first freshness).
It is not so easy to solve this problem, especially considering that the search engine will need to analyze the content of billions of Internet pages on the fly, filter out unnecessary ones, and form a list (issue) from the rest, where the answers that are most suitable for the user's question will first go.
This extremely complex task is solved by preliminary collection of information from these pages using various indexing robots... They collect links from already visited pages and upload information from them to the search engine database. There are bots that index text (regular and fast robots that live on news and frequently updated resources so that the latest data is always presented in the results).
In addition, there are image indexers robots (for their subsequent display in), favicons, site mirrors (for their subsequent comparison and possible gluing), bots that check the operability of Internet pages that users or through tools for webmasters (here you can read about, and) ...
The indexing process itself and the subsequent process of updating the index bases is quite time consuming. Although Google does it much faster than competitors, in any case Yandex, which takes a week or two to do this (read about).
Usually, the search engine breaks down the text content of an Internet page into separate words, which leads to the basic basics, so that later you can give the correct answers to questions asked in different morphological forms. All extra body kit in the form Html tags, spaces, etc. things are deleted, and the remaining words are sorted alphabetically and their position in this document is indicated next to them.
Such shnyaga is called an inverse index and allows you to search not on web pages, but on structured data located on the servers of the search engine.
The number of such servers at Yandex (which mostly searches only for Russian-language sites and a bit for Ukrainian and Turkish) is in the tens or even hundreds of thousands, and for Google (which searches in hundreds of languages) - in the millions.
Many servers have copies, which serve both to increase the safety of documents and help to increase the speed of request processing (by balancing the load). Estimate the costs of maintaining this entire farm.
The user's request will be directed by the load balancer to the server segment that is currently least loaded. Then the analysis of the region from where the user of the search engine sent his request is carried out, and it is morphologically parsed. If a similar query was recently entered in search bar, then data from the cache is slipped to the user so as not to load the server again.
If the request has not yet been cached, then it is passed to the area where the search engine's index base is located. In response, you will receive a list of all Internet pages that have at least some relation to the request. Not only direct occurrences are taken into account, but also other morphological forms, as well as, etc. things.
Them need to rank, and at this stage, the algorithm comes into play ( artificial intelligence). In fact, the user's request is multiplied at the expense of all possible options its interpretation and the simultaneous search for answers to many queries (through the use of query language operators, some of which are available to ordinary users).
As a rule, the search results contain one page from each site (sometimes more). are now very complex and take into account many factors. In addition, to correct them, and are used, which manually evaluate the reference sites, which allows you to adjust the operation of the algorithm as a whole.
In general, it is clear that this is a dark matter. We can talk about this for a long time, but it is also understood that user satisfaction with the search engine is achieved, oh, how difficult it is. And there will always be those who do not like something, like, for example, you and me, dear readers.
Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site
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What is it
DuckDuckGo is a fairly well-known open source search engine. The servers are located in the USA. In addition to its own robot, the search engine uses the results of other sources: Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia.
The better
DuckDuckGo positions itself as a search engine that provides maximum privacy and confidentiality. The system does not collect any user data, does not store logs (no search history), use cookies as limited as possible.
DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information from users. This is our privacy policy.
Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo
Why do you need it
All major search engines try to personalize search results based on the data about the person in front of the monitor. This phenomenon is called the "filter bubble": the user sees only those results that agree with his preferences or that the system considers as such.
Forms an objective picture that does not depend on your past behavior on the web, and gets rid of thematic advertising Google and Yandex, based on your queries. DuckDuckGo makes it easy to search for information in foreign languages, while Google and Yandex by default give preference to Russian-language sites, even if the request is entered in another language.
What is it
not Evil is a search engine for the Tor anonymous network. To use it, you need to go to this network, for example by launching a specialized one.
not Evil is not the only search engine of its kind. There is LOOK (the default search in the Tor browser, accessible from the regular Internet) or TORCH (one of the oldest search engines in the Tor network) and others. We settled on not Evil because of the unambiguous hint of Google (just look at the start page).
The better
Searches where Google, Yandex and other search engines are closed in principle.
Why do you need it
There are many resources on the Tor network that cannot be found on the law-abiding Internet. And their number will grow as the government tightens control over the content of the Web. Tor is a kind of network within the Network with its own social networks, torrent trackers, media, marketplaces, blogs, libraries, and so on.
3. YaCy
What is it
YaCy is a decentralized search engine based on P2P networks. Each computer on which the main software module is installed scans the Internet independently, that is, it is an analogue search robot... The results obtained are collected in a common database, which is used by all participants in YaCy.
The better
It is difficult to say whether it is better or worse here, since YaCy is a completely different approach to organizing search. The absence of a single server and company-owner makes the results completely independent of someone's preferences. The autonomy of each node excludes censorship. YaCy is capable of searching the deep web and non-indexed public networks.
Why do you need it
If you are a supporter of open source software and the free Internet, which is not influenced by government agencies and large corporations, then YaCy is your choice. It can also be used to organize searches within a corporate or other autonomous network. And while YaCy is not very useful in everyday life, it is worthy alternative to google in terms of the search process.
4. Pipl
What is it
Pipl is a system designed to search for information about a specific person.
The better
The authors of Pipl claim that their specialized algorithms search more efficiently than "regular" search engines. In particular, profiles are prioritized. social networks, comments, lists of participants and various databases where information about people is published, for example, databases of court decisions. Pipl's leadership in this area has been validated by Lifehacker.com, TechCrunch and others.
Why do you need it
If you need to find information about a person living in the United States, then Pipl will be much more effective than Google. The databases of Russian courts are apparently inaccessible to a search engine. Therefore, he does not cope with the citizens of Russia so well.
What is it
FindSounds is another specialized search engine. Searches open sources for various sounds: house, nature, cars, people, and so on. The service does not support queries in Russian, but there is an impressive list of Russian-language tags that you can search for.
The better
The results are only sounds and nothing more. In the settings, you can set the desired format and sound quality. All found sounds are available for download. There is a pattern search.
Why do you need it
If you need to quickly find the sound of a musket shot, the blows of a woodpecker, or the scream of Homer Simpson, then this service is for you. And we chose this only from the available Russian-language requests. On the English language the spectrum is even wider.
Seriously, a specialized service assumes a specialized audience. But what if it comes in handy?
What is it
Wolfram | Alpha is a computational search engine. Instead of links to articles containing keywords, it gives a ready answer to the user's request. For example, if you enter "compare the populations of New York and San Francisco" in English into the search form, Wolfram | Alpha will immediately display tables and graphs with a comparison.
The better
This service is better than others for finding facts and calculating data. Wolfram | Alpha collects and organizes knowledge available on the Web from a variety of fields, including science, culture and entertainment. If this database contains a ready-made answer to a search query, the system shows it; if not, it calculates and displays the result. In this case, the user sees only and nothing superfluous.
Why do you need it
If you are, for example, a student, analyst, journalist, or research scientist, you can use Wolfram | Alpha to find and calculate data related to your work. The service does not understand all requests, but it is constantly evolving and becoming smarter.
What is it
The Dogpile metasearch engine displays a combined list of search results from Google, Yahoo and other popular search engines.
The better
First, Dogpile displays fewer ads. Secondly, the service uses a special algorithm to find and show the best results from different search engines. According to the developers of Dogpile, their system generates the most complete search results on the entire Internet.
Why do you need it
If you cannot find information in Google or another standard search engine, search for it in several search engines at once using Dogpile.
What is it
BoardReader is a system for text search in forums, Q&A services and other communities.
The better
The service allows you to narrow the search field to social platforms. Thanks to special filters, you can quickly find posts and comments that match your criteria: language, publication date and site name.
Why do you need it
BoardReader can be useful for PR specialists and other media professionals who are interested in mass opinion on certain issues.
Finally
The life of alternative search engines is often fleeting. Lifehacker asked Sergei Petrenko, the former general director of the Ukrainian branch of Yandex, about the long-term prospects of such projects.
Sergey Petrenko
Former general director Yandex.Ukraine.
As for the fate of alternative search engines, it is simple: to be very niche projects with a small audience, therefore, without clear commercial prospects, or, conversely, with complete clarity of their absence.
If you look at the examples in the article, you can see that such search engines either specialize in a narrow but demanded niche, which, perhaps only so far, has not grown enough to be noticeable on Google or Yandex radars, or they are testing an original hypothesis in ranking. which is not yet applicable in regular search.
For example, if a search on Tor suddenly turns out to be in demand, that is, results from there will be needed at least by a percentage of Google's audience, then, of course, ordinary search engines will begin to solve the problem of how to find and show them to the user. If the audience behavior shows that the results seem more relevant to a noticeable share of users in a noticeable number of queries, data without taking into account user-dependent factors, then Yandex or Google will begin to give such results.
“To be better” in the context of this article does not mean “to be better at everything”. Yes, in many aspects our heroes are far from Yandex (even Bing is far away). But on the other hand, each of these services gives the user something that the giants of the search industry cannot offer. Surely you also know similar projects. Share with us - we will discuss.
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