Bing is a very popular site, it is one of the fastest growing search engines today. It was launched in 2009 by Microsoft as the newer version of Microsoft Live. In 2012 ALexa reported them as 26th most visited websites worldwide. It is a very easy website to use and get any information that you are looking for.
Ask.com is one of the first searched engines formally known as Ask Jeeves. Ask was started in 1996 based on the idea of answering everyday questions in a common langauge. When using this site you can ask a general question and it will pick the key words that need to be searched.
Yahoo was also one of the first search engines started in 1994, was basically started to be a phone book of websites and later became a search engine. In 2009 it was rated the 2nd largest search engine on the web. Alexa reports yahoo is the 4th most visited website globally.
duckduckgo.com founded in sseptember 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg. Duckduckgo.com backs itself by respecting users privacy. This website compiles it's results by using many sourses,including; Yahoo, WolframAlpha, and Bing.
Yandex.com launched in 2010, very popular worldwide because it allows you to search in; english, french, german, as well in other languages. Its is basically a copycat of the russian search engine Yandex.ru.
Blekko.com released November 1,2010. Known as the slash tag engine which allows you to easily create custom searches. There is currently no way to submitt your website to Blekko.com, they find your website from other search engines and add you to there site.
Scrubtheweb.com started in 1996. scrubthewebs claim to fame is that they rank all index pages individually not by views, with all pages given an equal chance to be ranked highly in a Scrub the web search.
WolframAlpha offically launched May 18, 2009. It is a service that answers by directly computing the answer instead of giving you a list of websites. With this website you can ask a real life question with out it pulling up many documents, it will aswer your question like a human would answer it.
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