Top 3 Search Engines - Techsplaz

 1) Google

Founder : Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Parent Company : Alphabet.Inc

Searches/day : 5.4 Billion searches

Overview : Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies alongside Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.

2) Bing

Founder : Microsoft

Parent Company : ----

Searches/day : 137 Million searches

Overview : Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. It is developed using ASP.NET.

3) Yahoo

Founder : Jerry Yang and David Filo

Parent Company : Verizon Media

Searches/day : 340 Million searches

Overview : Originally, "Yahoo Search" referred to a Yahoo-provided interface that sent queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of websites. The results were presented to the user under the Yahoo! brand. Originally, none of the actual web crawling and data housing was done by Yahoo! itself. In 2001, the searchable index was powered by Inktomi and later by Google until 2004, when Yahoo! Search became independent. 

Honourable Mention

Duckduckgo

Founder : Gabriel Weinberg

Parent Company : ----

Searches/day : 63 Million searches

Overview : DuckDuckGo (also abbreviated as DDG) is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by showing all users the same search results for a given search term.