What is the best search engine?

Answer 1

Different search engines may be better for different tasks.

Google is currently the best all-round search engine.

Other notable competitors include:

Baidu (particularly in Asia)

Yahoo

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Notes: Many search engines actually are 'customized searches', and rely on a different search engine to do the actual searching. Example: AOL uses Google search. These 'customized searches' have not been included in these lists.

Also, search engines, which simply compile results from other search engines, (eg Dogpile, Metacrawler) are not included in this list.

Answer 2

Different search engines may be better for different tasks.

Google is currently the best all-round search engine.

Other notable competitors include:

Baidu (particularly in Asia)

Yahoo

Ask

Bing

Search sites for specific tasks:

For Questions/Answers:

Wiki Answers

Yahoo Answers

For specific files:

FileWatcher

Notes: Many search engines actually are 'customized searches', and rely on a different search engine to do the actual searching. Example: AOL uses Google search. These 'customized searches' have not been included in these lists.

Also, search engines, which simply compile results from other search engines, (eg Dogpile, Metacrawler) are not included in this list.

Answer 3

What search engine is the best depends on the user, but there are a few that are popular and recommended.

Google.com (Probably the most used)

Yahoo.com

Baidu.com (China)

Sogou.com (China)

AOL.com

i like google the best

then maybe yahoo but not very much.

i do not use aol.com

or baidue.com

sogou.com

i never heard of those to hover wever i use google all the time unless gooogle does not have it i will go to yahoo