European Google competitors to watch
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have a question for you. Have you spent a day in your life without Google-ing something? I know I haven’t and I believe you will agree with me as well. The reason is that Google is an unques onable leader on the search engine market and we love the idea of instant informa on. However, as privacy concerns grow, people have been slowly shifting towards more privacy-focused search engines and other benefits which are not on Google’s menu. It’s also worth mentioning that we recently ran a poll on Twitter,
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asking you ‘Do you have the feeling that #Google search results improved within the past 3 years?‘. While 45% said ‘Yes’, the winning answer at 55% was ‘Definitely not’. While this option didn’t win by a huge margin, that’s s ll 55% of par cipants that could be open to finding a new search engine solu on. If search engine privacy is important to you, we looked into some alternaves and prepared a list of 5 privacy-focused search engines, all tried and tested.
Ecosia Known for its commitment to the environment, the Berlin-based ecofriendly search engine was founded in 2009 to grab a part of the billion dollar search engine industry, with a very interes ng USP – using its profits to plant trees around the world. The company donates 80% of its surplus income to tree plan ng programmes all over the world. What started as a social enterprise, has now turned into an organiza on who has planted more na ve and biodiverse tree species globally than any other. As of
