7 GOOGLE ALTERNATIVE TRAFFIC
SOURCES
1. Bing
Microsoft’s search engine is the second most popular search engine in the world, with 15.8% of the search market.
Also note that Bing powers Yahoo’s search engine.
2. DuckDuckGo
The key feature of DuckDuckGo is that it doesn’t retain its users’ data, so it won’t track you or manipulate results based on your behaviour. So if you’re particularly spooked by Google’s all-seeing, all-knowing eye, this might be the one for you.
3. Quora
As Google gets better and better at answering more complicated questions, it will never be able to match the personal touch available with Quora.
4. Dogpile
Dogpile may look like a search engine you cobbled together with clip-art, but that’s rather the point as it pulls in and ‘curates’ results from various different engines including Google, Yandex and Yahoo, but removes all the ads.
5. Vimeo
Of course if you’re going to give up Google, then you’ll also have to give up YouTube, which can be a terrifying prospect. But there is an alternative. And a pretty good one at that… Vimeo. The professional’s choice of video-sharing site, which has lots of HD video and no ads.
6. Yandex
This is a Russian portal, offering many similar products and services as Google, and it’s the dominant search engine in Russia.
As you can see it offers results in a nice logical format, replete with favicons so you can clearly see the various channels for your branded queries.
7. Boardreader
If you want to get into the nitty-gritty of a subject with a variety of different points of view away from the major publications, Boardreader surfaces results purely from forums, message boards and, of course, Reddit.
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