For over two decades, Google has been the search engine that most people use for everyday searches, product research, and staying up to date on the latest news.
Because of this market dominance, Google has also been the main search engine of focus for SEO and marketing professionals.
However, following the introduction of ChatGPT and Bing Chat, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin reportedly returned to take an active role in Google’s plans to add chatbot features to Google Search.
Shortly after that, around May 2023, Google introduced the chatbot Bard (later renamed Gemini), and after a year, rolled out “AI Overviews” on May 14, 2024, to USA-based searchers.
OpenAI followed with ChatGPT search in late 2024, transforming the former SearchGPT prototype into a fully integrated search feature within ChatGPT.
Google does still hold majority market share, but there are several alternative search engines that offer distinct advantages over Google, such as enhanced privacy, specialized content, unique algorithms, and tailored user experiences.
Here are 25 of the best alternative search engines you can try.
List of Alternative Search Engines
- 1. ChatGPT Search
- 2. Google AI Mode
- 3. Perplexity.ai
- 4. You.com
- 5. Yep.com
- 6. Openverse
- 7. Bing.com
- 8. Yahoo.com
- 9. Ecosia
- 10. KARMA Search
- 11. DuckDuckGo
- 12. Startpage
- 13. Swisscows
- 14. Brave
- 15. Kagi
- 16. Mojeek
- 17. X (Formerly Twitter)
- 18. SlideShare
- 19. Wayback Machine
- 20. WolframAlpha
- 21. LinkedIn
- 22. Baidu
- 23. Yandex
- 24. Sogou
- 25. Naver