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We present some very interesting tables where the differences between search engines are highlighted. One is up Wikipedia, one is called Search Engine Party and the last one, taken from ainfographic Of Mojeek, is called The Search Engine Map. It is a very simple table, suitable for anyone and which easily explains some important data relating to the major search engines on the web.
The three tables:
- Search Engine Party (note: not updated since mid-2022)
Why are we talking about it?
One of the reasons why it was born The Alternatives is to simplify as much as possible some otherwise boring or complex concepts. Another reason is to raise awareness of wonderful, useful and very simple tools to use. In fact, that's why we created the section practical examples where inside we talk about projects like Exodus Privacy or Blacklight.
Differences between search engines
This article therefore does nothing more than present you with some tables and remind you that the internet is full of practical explanatory examples which are often worth much more than a thousand words. Remember our article for example The differences in privacy between one email and another? Thanks to Apple's privacy report some things are clearer at a glance even without any technical knowledge.
Even in this case, therefore, we discover that there already exists a table where you can get some answers to questions that may have been buzzing in your head.
For example: very few exist (only two are reported) alternatives to Google Search that they are free and non-proprietary and are YaCy And Gigablast. The table excludes searx as you can see. Probably because it doesn't have its own crawler (i.e. a robot that goes around indexing the internet) and because there is no central server.
European search engines
We then see that the only companies, to date, with dedicated servers in Europe are Qwant And Petal Search, both linked to Huawei 1. The only search engines that can also be reached via the net Tor They seem to be DuckDuckGo And Gigablast.
In the section Tracking and surveillance for example we can easily see who definitely uses gods Cookies tracking (Google And Baidu) and who personalizes the results (always Google). We always see at a glance that Bing, Yahoo And Google they track the IPs of those doing the searches and exchange information.
In short, as we always tell you: all the tables and simplifications must be taken for what they are, that is simplifications and tables. A list of this kind is very useful to have something in front of your eyes and to get a general idea. But it's always a good idea to delve deeper, checking if the reference links have expired, if the information is updated and so on. However, it is precisely a good starting point in our opinion from which everyone can then draw their own conclusions.
These lists are decent but are obviously not completely exhaustive and if you have information you can update it yourself by inserting the necessary citations or recreate a similar one for the Italian Wikipedia page.
The other tables
As regards the other two sites: Search Engine Party it's a project Open source 2 probably even more up to date than the Wikipedia page. In this case there are colors to indicate the positive points in green and the negative ones in red.
We can discover new European search engines even if they seem to be more localized in individual regions, such as Not at, specializing in finding things in the German language.
Unlike the Wikipedia table, there are also several instances of searX.
The Search Engine Map it is instead an interactive map taken from ainfographic by Mojeek. It mainly aims to reveal the interactions between the various search engines and shows clearly how almost all alternative search engines, after all, they use Bing or Google.
Here you go, this article will also end up on the list practical examples so as to help those who are new to these parts to get a quick idea of what the topics covered are and why we want to be able to simplify everything.
The three tables:
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