Are you worried about online privacy? Not a fan of anticompetitive practices? Maybe you just want a new take on web search? These 13 search engines beat Google in many ways. I've been testing PC and ...

As anyone who uses the internet will know, the way we find information has fundamentally changed. For the last three decades, search engines have delivered ranked lists of links in response to our ...

SearXNG users are the tinkers and testers of the private-search world. Many of them self-host SearXNG, a meta-search front end that can query dozens of engines while stripping identifiers, filtering ...

The AI search engines also arguably have an advantage in being able to weave pre-trained “internal knowledge” in with data ...

All the best ways to see the top stories and searches across the internet What are the most popular searches on any given search engine? Many search engines and other websites track the top searches ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. I remember 1996 like it was yesterday. Banner ads were booming, and AltaVista was the ...

Companies like OpenAI and Perplexity have made lofty claims that their AI-powered search engines, which scrape information from the web to generate summarized answers, will provide new sources of ...

AI search engines like GPT-4o and Gemini favor lesser-known sites over popular ones, citing low-traffic domains rarely seen in Google’s top 100 results.