Bing is a general search engine. It works well, but not as well as Google. The only reason to use it is, you think Google is liberal, but you haven't researched Microsoft's politics, which are even more liberal than Google's!
DuckDuckGo (ddg.gg for short) is a general search engine. It's a meta search engine, which is to say, it doesn't do its own spidering, but, rather, combines the results of other search engines. Potentially useful. Good attitude.
Quora is not a general search engine. It's a glorified blog. There can be good stuff on it, but I'd never go there first. Of course, if Google leads there, then it might be worth a click. Maybe.
Dogpile is as old as dog piles. A meta search engine.
Vimeo is not a general search engine. It used to be a better YouTube, but YouTube caught up. YouTube's videos are now as sharp as Vimeo's. And there are a lot more of them. So, why use Vimeo?
Yandex is a general search engine. It works well. But certainly not as well as Google. So, why use it? Unless it contains results Google has been forced to remove? Or just to scandalize Robert Mueller?
Boardreader? Who they? Maybe I should take a look. But I doubt it.
WolframAlpha is not a general search engine. Actually not a search engine at all. More like a jack of all trades wannabe. Ask it something, and it will give you an answer. Sometimes spot on, but more likely quirky and irrelevant, albeit mildly interesting. If you know what it's good at, then use it. Maybe even spring for the pay version, if you're a college kid in certain fields. Otherwise, it's a waste of time.
IxQuick is yet another meta search engine.
Ask.com is well past it's sell-by date.
SlideShare is an internet pestilence. If you have a deck, post a PDF. Don't use SlideShare or its competitors.
Creative Commons Search is not a general search engine. It doesn't belong in the article.
Giphy is an internet pestilence. As are animated GIFs!
And why did they ignore Yahoo?
Thanks for posting that. I use ixquick and find that it is adequate, but barely. When I really want to find something, I reluctantly use Google. I will try a couple of those other search engines next time I need to search.
>>> (Bing) ..... you think Google is liberal, but you haven’t researched Microsoft’s politics, which are even more liberal than Google’s! <<<
That may be so, and plenty of us know about this.
BUT.
Bing search hasn’t reflected the blatant bias that’s found in Google’s “algorithm”.
Very good summary and review here. Thank you. I have used Duck Duck for years now. But they are all “enhanced by Google”. Why? Why can’t they spider themselves? Is computing power the problem? Does Google hold a patent on search engine ware?
Someone needs to make a serious competitive effort against Google but there is a unfair advantage somewhere...