Anonymous search engine: review and comparison of the best. Russian search engines and leading Internet search engines The most accurate search engine

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. , then its few users had enough of their own bookmarks. However, as you remember, it happened in geometric progression, and very soon it became more difficult to navigate in all its diversity.

Then directories appeared (Yahoo, Dmoz and others), in which their authors added and sorted various sites into categories. This immediately made life easier for the then, not yet very numerous users of the global network. Many of these catalogs are still alive today.

But after some time, the size of their databases became so large that the developers first thought about creating a search within them, and then about creating an automated system for indexing all Internet content in order to make it accessible to everyone.

The main search engines of the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet

As you understand, this idea was implemented with stunning success, but, however, everything turned out well only for a handful of selected companies that managed not to disappear on the Internet. Almost all search engines that appeared in the first wave have now either disappeared, languished, or were bought by more successful competitors.

A search engine is a very complex and, importantly, very resource-intensive mechanism (this means not only material resources, but also human ones). Behind the seemingly simple , or its ascetic analogue from Google, there are thousands of employees, hundreds of thousands of servers and many billions of investments that are necessary for this colossus to continue to operate and remain competitive.

Entering this market now and starting from scratch is more of a utopia than a real business project. For example, one of the world's richest corporations, Microsoft, has been trying to gain a foothold in the search market for decades, and only now their search engine Bing is slowly beginning to meet their expectations. And before that there was a whole series of failures and setbacks.

What can we say about entering this market without any special financial influences. For example, our domestic search engine Nigma has a lot of useful and innovative things in its arsenal, but their traffic is thousands of times lower than the leaders of the Russian market. For example, take a look at the daily Yandex audience:

In this regard, we can assume that the list of the main (best and luckiest) search engines of the Runet and the entire Internet has already been formed and the whole intrigue lies only in who will eventually devour whom, or how their percentage share will be distributed if they all survive and will stay afloat.

Russian search engine market is very clearly visible and here, probably, we can distinguish two or three main players and a couple of minor ones. In general, a rather unique situation has developed in RuNet, which, as I understand it, has repeated itself only in two other countries in the world.

I'm talking about the fact that the Google search engine, having come to Russia in 2004, has still not been able to take leadership. In fact, they tried to buy Yandex around this period, but something didn’t work out there and now “our Russia”, along with the Czech Republic and China, are those places where the almighty Google, if not defeated, then, in any case, met serious resistance.

In fact, to see the current state of affairs among the best search engines on the RuNet Anyone can. It will be enough to paste this URL into the address bar of your browser:

Http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/ru/searches.html?period=month;total=yes

The fact is that most of them use .

After entering the given Url, you will see a picture that is not very attractive and presentable, but it well reflects the essence of the matter. Pay attention to the top five search engines from which sites in Russian receive traffic:

Yes, of course, not all resources with Russian-language content are located in this zone. There are also SU and RF, and general areas like COM or NET are full of Internet projects focused on Runet, but still, the sample is quite representative.

This dependence can be presented in a more colorful way, as, for example, someone did online for his presentation:

This doesn't change the essence. There are a couple of leaders and several very, very far behind search engines. By the way, I have already written about many of them. Sometimes it can be quite interesting to plunge into the history of success or, conversely, to delve into the reasons for the failures of once promising search engines.

So, in order of importance for Russia and the Runet as a whole, I will list them and give them brief characteristics:

Searching on Google has already become a household word for many people on the planet - you can read about it in the link. In this search engine, I liked the “translation of results” option, when you received answers from all over the world, but in your native language, but now, unfortunately, it is not available (at least on google.ru).

Lately I have also been puzzled by the quality of their output (Search Engine Result Page). Personally, I always first use the RuNet mirror search engine (there is one there, well, I’m used to it) and only if I don’t find an intelligible answer there, I turn to Google.

Usually the release of them made me happy, but lately it has only puzzled me - sometimes such nonsense comes out. It is possible that their struggle to increase income from contextual advertising and the constant shuffling of search results in order to discredit SEO promotion may lead to the opposite result. In any case, this search engine has a competitor on the RuNet, and what kind of one at that.

I think that it is unlikely that anyone will specifically go to Go.mail.ru to search in RuNet. Therefore, traffic to entertainment projects from this search engine can be significantly more than ten percent. Owners of such projects should pay attention to this system.

However, in addition to the clear leaders in the search engine market of the Russian-language segment of the Internet, there are several more players whose share is quite low, but nevertheless the very fact of their existence makes it necessary to say a few words about them.

Runet search engines from the second echelon

Internet-wide search engines

By and large, on the scale of the entire Internet there is only one serious player - Google. This is the undisputed leader, but it still has some competition.

First of all, it's still the same Bing, which, for example, has a very good position in the American market, especially considering that its engine is also used on all Yahoo services (almost a third of the entire US search market).

Well, secondly, due to the huge share that users from China make up in the total number of Internet users, their main search engine called Baidu wedges itself into the distribution of places on the world Olympus. He was born in 2000 and now his share is about 80% of the entire national audience in China.

It is difficult to say anything more intelligible about Baidu, but on the Internet there are opinions that places in its Top are occupied not only by the sites most relevant to the request, but also by those who paid for it (directly to the search engine, and not to the SEO office). Of course, this applies primarily to commercial listings.

In general, looking at the statistics, it becomes clear why Google easily agrees to worsen its search results in exchange for increasing profits from contextual advertising. In fact, they are not afraid of user churn, because in most cases they have nowhere to go. This situation is somewhat sad, but we'll see what happens next.

By the way, to make life even more difficult for optimizers, and perhaps to maintain the peace of mind of this search engine’s users, Google has recently been using encryption when transmitting queries from users’ browsers to the search bar. Soon it will no longer be possible to see in the statistics of visitor counters what queries Google users came to you for.

Of course, in addition to the search engines mentioned in this publication, there are thousands of others - regional, specialized, exotic, etc. Trying to list and describe them all in one article would be impossible, and probably not necessary. Let's better say a few words about how easy it is to create a search engine and how easy and inexpensive it is to keep it up to date.

The vast majority of systems work on similar principles (read about this and that) and pursue the same goal - to give users an answer to their question. Moreover, this answer must be relevant (corresponding to the question), comprehensive and, which is not unimportant, relevant (of the first freshness).

Solving this problem is not so easy, especially considering that the search engine will need to analyze the contents of billions of Internet pages on the fly, weed out the unnecessary ones, and from the remaining ones form a list (issue), where the most appropriate answers to the user’s question will appear first.

This extremely complex task is solved by preliminary collection of information from these pages using various indexing robots. They collect links from already visited pages and load information from them into the search engine database. There are bots that index text (a regular and fast bot that lives on news and frequently updated resources so that the latest data is always presented in the results).

In addition, there are robots that index images (for their subsequent output to), favicons, site mirrors (for their subsequent comparison and possible gluing), bots that check the functionality of Internet pages, which users or through tools for webmasters (here you can read about, and) .

The indexing process itself and the subsequent process of updating index databases are quite time-consuming. Although Google does this much faster than its competitors, at least Yandex, which takes a week or two to do this (read about).

Typically, a search engine breaks the text content of an Internet page into individual words, which are reduced to the basic principles, so that it can then give correct answers to questions asked in different morphological forms. All the extra stuff in the form of HTML tags, spaces, etc. things are deleted, and the remaining words are sorted alphabetically and their position in this document is indicated next to them.

This kind of thing is called a reverse index and allows you to search not by web pages, but by structured data located on the search engine servers.

The number of such servers for Yandex (which searches mainly only for Russian-language sites and a little for Ukrainian and Turkish) is in the tens or even hundreds of thousands, and for Google (which searches in hundreds of languages) - in the millions.

Many servers have copies, which serve both to increase the security of documents and help increase the speed of request processing (by distributing the load). Estimate the costs of maintaining this entire economy.

The user's request will be sent by the load balancer to the server segment that is currently least loaded. Then an analysis is carried out of the region from which the search engine user sent his request, and it is analyzed morphologically. If a similar query was recently entered in the search bar, then the user is given data from the cache so as not to overload the servers again.

If the request has not yet been cached, then it is transferred to the area where the search engine's index database is located. In response, you will receive a list of all Internet pages that are at least somewhat related to the request. Not only direct occurrences are taken into account, but also other morphological forms, as well as, etc. things.

Their needs to be ranked and at this stage the algorithm (artificial intelligence) comes into play. In fact, the user's request is multiplied through all possible options for its interpretation, and answers to many requests are searched simultaneously (through the use of query language operators, some of which are available to ordinary users).

As a rule, the search results contain one page from each site (sometimes more). are now very complex and take into account many factors. In addition, to correct them, and are used, which manually evaluate reference sites, which allows you to adjust the operation of the algorithm as a whole.

In general, it is clear that the matter is dark. We can talk about this for a long time, but it is already clear that user satisfaction with a search system is achieved, oh, how difficult it is. And there will always be those who don’t like something, like you and me, dear readers.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

Anonymous search engine

Preface
Search Engine Security
Search engine anonymity
Anonymous search engines
- DuckDuckGo
- Ixquick
- Startpage
- eTools.ch
- Privatelee
Conclusion

Search Engine Security

Secure Internet search begins with an encrypted transmission of the request between the user and the server. I used the excellent SSL Server Test tool to test the encryption. I ran all the search engines through it and identified obvious outsiders in our review.

Why outsiders?

Because a search engine that positions itself as anonymous and secure must first of all force and automatically establish a secure SSL connection.

To do this, you need to manually enter “https” in the address bar of the eTools search engine. In YaCy search - activate the use of the secure HTTPS protocol in the settings. And others besides DuckDuckGo, Startpage Ixquick have even worse problems with this matter.

Google and Yandex don’t have such problems. In general, in terms of security and encryption of requests, Yandex and Google have no equal.

Another important criterion is the length of the encryption key. The longer the better. DuckDuckGo performed best with RSA 4096-bit encryption. Its competitors use keys half as long. But even they will be considered safe for a long time.

You should also pay attention to PFS. This parameter is even more important than the length of the encryption key. For those who are not in the know, PFS (Perfect forward secrecy) translates as perfect forward secrecy. In simple words, PFS is protection against recording of an encrypted session by intelligence agencies and hackers.

Search engine anonymity

It's all about safety. And now about anonymity. Unlike Google, Yandex and others, where all your queries are saved, processed and analyzed, anonymous search engines do not store your Internet activity.

By the way, you can view all your queries on Google using the “” service. There you can also find your other traces left on the network. It is saved in the same way.

Well, and finally about the cookies. Cookies. Persistent cookies in anonymous search engines are only saved if the default settings are changed - for example, if you set the DuckDuckGo interface language or the Ixquick interface theme. None of the alternative anonymous search engines use the user ID in their Cookies.

And Google does this with every request. To process the IP address, it dynamically uses numerous persistent Cookies with an ID to accurately identify the user. What did you think?

Anonymous search engine Yacy

Anonymous search engine Ixquick

The search engine Ixquick was founded by David Bodnikin in 1998. Since 2000, it has been owned by the Dutch company Surfboard Holding BV.

Ixquick.com is the first search engine to remove sensitive data from its users. IP addresses and other personal information of users are deleted 48 hours after the search.

The search engine also has an interesting feature “Proxy mode”. This function works like this. Next to each site in the search results there is a “Proxy” button, by clicking on which you will receive information from the site anonymously - the Startpage robot will go to the page you are looking for, then download it and display it to you.

Main features of Ixquick:

SSL/PFS encryption standard.
Does not save search history/IP address/sensitive data.

A worthy competitor to DuckDuckGo. In some ways it’s even better. The only downside I can mention is that there is no option to change the site interface language. Those. There is such a possibility, but Russian is not among the possible languages yet.

The Startpage search engine is another project of the Ixquick company. There is one difference between the search engine Ixquick and Startpage. The latter uses only Google results in search results, but like Ixquick, it does not store IP addresses, removes identifying information from user search queries and sends anonymized, anonymous information to Google.

Anonymous search engine Startpage

Startpage also has a free anonymous web proxy through which the user can open websites using their proxy service and search for pictures and videos anonymously.

The search engine, when working between the client and the server, by default uses the HTTPS protocol with the AES encryption algorithm and a key length of 128 bits.

Main features of Startpage:

SSL/PFS encryption standard.
Servers are located in the Netherlands.
There are applications for Android and iOS.
Does not transfer confidential data to third parties.
Does not save user ID in Cookies.
Does not track third party cookies.

A worthy competitor to DuckDuckGo, but Ixquick is better. One of the downsides, like Ixquick, is that it is not possible to change the site interface language. There is anything you want, but not Russian.

Anonymous search engine eTools.ch

The eTools.ch search engine is another online service that positions itself as anonymous. Let's find out how anonymous it is. So, eTools.ch does not have its own index and ranking algorithms; search results are taken from other services: Ask, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Google, etc.

eTools.ch uses the HTTPS protocol by default between client and server.

Main features of eTools.ch:

PFS encryption standard
Does not save search history such as: IP address and confidential data.
Does not transfer confidential data to third parties.
Does not save user ID in Cookies.

Compared to DuckDuckGo and Ixquick, everything is much worse. eTools.ch stores persistent and third party tracking Cookies.

Anonymous search engine Privatelee

Privatelee is not the most popular service. Search results are generated by mastering its index. The quality of search results is far from ideal. Using Power Search filters, you can add Google, Ask, and Bing search results.

There are almost no settings. A WOT rating icon is displayed next to each site. Yes, friends, you heard right, the search engine developers apparently do not know what the users are like. Maybe we can send them a link to our website and invite them to subscribe?))

There is nothing more to say and I don’t see the point in comparing with others.

Other anonymous search engines

This review did not include other anonymous search engines, as they do not have such rich functionality. It doesn’t make sense to do a review on each of them, but knowing that they exist is not bad.

Anonymous search engine Hulbee
Anonymous search engine Lukol
Anonymous search engine Yippy
Anonymous search engine Disconnect Search

In conclusion, I will answer one of the main questions.

In what cases is it justified to use an anonymous search engine?

If you are looking for something that you would not want the world wide web to know about!

In all other cases, it is better to use regular search engines such as Yandex and Google. Today, the quality of search results from these search giants is much better than any anonymous search engine.

Low anonymity is the cost of using leading search ranking technologies that try their best to prevent fraudulent or low-quality sites from ranking in the top. In this world, you have to pay for everything, sometimes with money, and sometimes with information.

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In 2017, when the Internet contains millions of terabytes of information and every user's movement on the Internet is recorded, there is no way to do without anonymous search engines. After all, it is very important for all of us to get to the necessary data as quickly and as safely as possible. But do our dear readers know exactly how search engines translate entered characters into code? Do you realize that all requests immediately go to the marketing departments of corporations?

The principle of operation of conventional search engines in 2017: anonymity at zero

Google

Let's go to Google search and see how it displays a link to a site, for example, whoer.net:

Yandex search

And this is how Yandex does it:

As you can see, it’s not very obvious. In fact, this was done on purpose, and the typing is nothing more than a script that will process the “click” on the link and remember the user’s action.
Today on our website we will talk about anonymous search engines that do not “pollute” the search with unnecessary scripts and do not store data about your search queries.

The most popular anonymous search engine for 2017 is DuckDuck, which is the default search engine in the Tor anonymous browser.

DuckDuck is also available for selection in Firefox and Opera browsers. The private search engine is famous for the fact that it does not use scripts in links and does not display advertising and viral sites in search results. DuckDuckGo allows the user to specify special characters and symbols in the query. And, as we have already said, the search engine does not monitor user actions.

Displaying query results in the anonymous search engine DuckDuck

As you can see, there are no hidden behavioral scripts here, but only a direct link!

Benefits of DuckDuckGo

Another positive aspect of the DuckDuckGo system is its full support for the https protocol. For now, this setting is disabled at the first user request, but it can be easily activated through the convenient main menu of the search engine. After performing this action, all searches will undergo additional encryption.

IxQuick is called the most confidential search engine in 2017.

The servers of this search engine are “equipped” with a powerful metasearch system. This means the following: after a search request, IxQuick displays results from a dozen search engines at once, combining them in its search window and assigning each link a unique rating, which is used for ranking.
The screenshot above shows that the main queries are taken from Google, so you don’t have to worry about the relevance of the results.

Privacy settings in the anonymous search engine IxQuick

Despite all the production capacity, no “surveillance” is carried out on users; moreover, users’ IP addresses are not even recorded. However, each user can allow their search settings to be saved on the anonymous search engine server in the form of cookies, which will either be automatically deleted every three months or updated each time they visit the IxQuick home page.

Pros and cons of IxQuick

A huge advantage of IxQuick is metasearch associated with the anonymity of queries that the search robot “sweeps” using a complex network of data redirection from the original search engine to the user.
Among the disadvantages of the IxQuick anonymous search, we can only note the fact that there is no Russian language in the interface.

Already from the screenshot, an attentive reader can conclude that StartPage is a clone of the anonymous search engine IxQuick. That’s right: the history of this project originated earlier than IxQuick, but despite the fact that the site did not analyze or save the user’s search results, nevertheless, it lost the competition and was soon bought out by a more powerful rival.
However, this site is still working, so we can recommend using a combination: in IxQuick, configure Bing as the main query provider, and in StartPage, set Google search as the default. This way you will get double anonymous search, easily comparing the results of your search data.

Most of the time a user spends on the Internet is spent searching for information that interests him. At the same time, there are many ways to obtain this data - you can look into an online encyclopedia and try to find the answer there, you can subscribe to a newsletter on a topic of interest and carefully study incoming correspondence, or you can consult with competent people on the forum by asking them a question. But the most universal way to find something on the Internet is to use one of the many search engines. Services for searching millions and millions of websites are, perhaps, the fundamental link of the World Wide Web. Without Google, Yahoo, Yandex and many other search engines familiar today, a user’s stay on the Internet would be more like a blind man walking through the forest. The importance of search engines for working on the Internet can hardly be overestimated - many users have search engine addresses as their starting pages, and it is from there that for many people an endless journey through various network resources begins. However, the effectiveness of Internet excavations is different for everyone - one person finds information instantly, another takes a lot of time, and a third may not find anything useful for himself at all. What is the reason? The answer is simple: searching on the Internet is akin to fishing - you need to know where to fish and what to fish for, i.e. where to look and how to look. In today's article we will talk about the best way to search on the Internet, and tell you what search engines exist for this, besides those that are “on everyone’s lips.”

However, we will start with those systems that you know. If a user knows the address of a search engine, this does not mean that he knows how to use it. Let's check how well you understand search query technology. How accurate the results you will get, first of all, depends on how skillfully you formed the search query. For example, if you are looking for information to write a term paper, you do not need to enter its topic verbatim, especially if the work has a narrow specialization. You will find much more valuable information if you try to select keywords, that is, those words that will definitely appear in your work. If you are looking for a lost manual for a car radio, then by entering the model number, you will probably get a huge number of sites offering to purchase it. To weed out unnecessary links, you can use the search function in the found or exclude some words from the search. In almost every search engine you will find an advanced search function. This is another good way to filter out unnecessary results. Such functions may include searching for pages that have been recently updated, searching for pages only in a certain language, or on sites located in the domain zone you specify. The time spent searching can be significantly saved if you know and use the query language syntax. Each search engine has its own characteristics. For example, when you are looking for something on Yandex, it would be a good idea to use the following techniques:

To search for words that should appear on the page in one sentence, put the & symbol between them
To exclude a specific word from search results, add it to your query by prefixing it with ~~
To find pages that contain at least one of the words specified in the search query, separate them with |
To search for a word in the specified form, put an exclamation mark in front of it

The Google search engine also has its secrets. Here are just a few of them:

To search for information on a specific site (and only on it), enter its address in the query field, preceded by the word site and a colon (for example, site:http://www.site)
To search for a phrase that should appear on the page in its entirety, put it in quotation marks
To exclude pages that contain a specific word from search results, add it to your query by placing a minus sign in front of it

These are just a few touches that can help make your Internet search more efficient. If you want to achieve optimal results, we advise you to become more familiar with the syntax of the query language, which is described in detail in the help system of your favorite search engine. There is no doubt that Google and Yandex are indispensable tools for searching the Internet - search in these systems is convenient, flexible and very accurate. But, nevertheless, this does not mean that alternative search engines do not have the right to exist. Yes - they index fewer pages, yes - their methods for selecting resources are largely controversial. But such search engines have one undeniable advantage - they offer something new, different from accepted standards. Since alternative search services use a different approach to selecting resources that match the query, the search result will be completely different than in the case of conventional search engines. So, if long searches on well-known services did not lead to anything, this means one thing - you need to change tactics and try other methods of searching for information using alternative search engines. Often, alternative search engines use one or more lists of resources that have been found by Google, Yahoo and other major systems to collect results. These results are filtered, the best are selected and often visualized for better understanding using a diagram, site map, tag cloud, etc. Developers of alternative search engines sometimes go so far in their search for a new universal interface that it is sometimes difficult to recognize a search engine in a web page. And yet, these are search engines. Unusual and strange, at first glance...

FindSounds.com - searches for sounds

This resource is intended for those users who are in creative search. The resource allows you to search for sound files of different formats - wav, mp3, aiff, au. The resource database contains a wide variety of sounds - animal screams, grinding cars, ringing, knocking, sirens, buzzing insects, the roar of explosions and gunfire, splashing water, etc. Sound files can be searched by various criteria, for example, by size, the presence of two or one sound channels (stereo/mono), sampling frequency and sound bit depth. In the search results, the resource shows not only links to the found files, but also their main characteristics, and also shows a graph of the sound amplitude, which can be used to judge the nature of the sound of a given sample.

The FindSounds sound effects database can be used in a variety of areas - from the development of computer games and other applications, to the creation of presentations and all kinds of clips. The search engine can be useful, for example, for those who create interactive web graphics and want to add variety to the site by accompanying the clicking of page navigation elements with different sounds.

Gnod.net - will select music, books and films to suit your tastes

When a person has a desire to read a new book, listen to some new music or watch a movie, he usually turns to his friend or acquaintance for advice, who has authority in his eyes. However, finding someone who would agree to express their opinion on this issue is not so easy. Firstly, not everyone likes to give advice, because when recommending something to another, a person takes on a share of responsibility, and many are stopped by the question “What if he doesn’t like the film that I recommend?” Secondly, the person who gives advice must understand what exactly the interlocutor will like, and what will be completely uninteresting. After all, taste and color, as they say... But there is an easier way to get good advice - use a special search engine that is made specifically for this purpose. So, you want to listen to a new band, but you don’t have the time or desire to look for good music. The gnod.net resource will ask you for several names of musical artists that you like, analyze the results and offer your own version of a singer or group that you should also like. The service has several databases - on music artists, films, books and people. Thus, the resource includes four services: Gnod Music, Gnod Books, Gnod Movies and Flork. The latest service, Flork, is a social experiment in discovering people who are interested in communicating with each other. We were happy to test the music section of this service and introduced three artists - Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Beatles and Hollies. Our selection was not random - these three groups belong to the era of the sixties, to an interesting phenomenon called the British Invasion. All these bands played a beat, and the search engine had to suggest a band or artist in the same style. And so it happened. The result offered to us is the group Archies, which in the late sixties was on the lips of all Americans with their cheerful song Sugar Sugar. After playing with the search engine for some time, we came to the conclusion that gnod.net often gives correct advice and is not mistaken very often. For clarity, the search engine can provide the results of its “advice” in the form of an animated cloud with the names of groups, authors or films. The database can be replenished independently by having “conversations” with the search engine and answering its questions in the style of “I like this” or “I don’t like this.”

Alldll.net - finds library files

We recommend that you immediately bookmark this search engine, as sooner or later it will definitely come in handy. Probably everyone has at least once encountered the problem of a missing dll library in their system. This usually results in programs or games refusing to launch, and the message “Couldn't find *****.dll” appear on the screen." There can be many reasons for this, for example, the absence of a file may be caused by incorrect removal of a previously installed application , accidental file corruption, etc. In addition, the developer could simply not include this library in the distribution of his product.

Correcting the situation is very simple - just find the missing file on the Internet, download it and copy it to the directory of the program that refuses to start, or to the ..WINDOWSsystem32... folder. You can find and download the missing file easily and quickly using this service. The resource www.alldll.net is a searchable database of the most popular dll libraries. The files are sorted alphabetically and there is a search function. You can search for the file you are looking for even if you only know the approximate name of the library. It is enough to start entering text in the request field, and at the bottom of the page a huge list of files will appear that begin with the letters that were typed.

Medpoisk.ru - search for medical information

Despite the fact that this search engine uses the search engine from Google, this in no way reduces its value. Medpoisk.ru is a universal search engine that is designed to search exclusively on medical sites. This site is an excellent tool for every physician and anyone who wants to get an answer to any question in the field of medicine. How to treat this or that disease, what are the contraindications for this or that medicine, which doctor to see - all this and much more can be found out by “asking” a search engine. The search engine includes a labor exchange and can be used to search for work among medical professionals. The resource also contains a catalog of medical institutions sorted by region. Among these institutions are the addresses of clinics, medical centers of various specialties, maternity hospitals, diagnostic centers, beauty salons, etc. We sincerely wish you to use this search service solely out of curiosity, and not out of necessity.

Taggalaxy.de - search for images and photos

Perhaps you have heard about the popular image sharing service Flickr.com? This is the same service that was blocked by the Chinese authorities in 2007 after photographs of the sad events of 1989 in Tiananmen Square, located in the Chinese capital Beijing, appeared on its pages. Flickr.com is one of the first Web 2.0 services, and the number of images uploaded by users is in the billions. The number of pictures uploaded to the servers of this service is so large that in order to find a specific image in this ocean of photographs and paintings, a separate search engine is needed. The service offers an image search service, but there is a more interesting way to search for images - using the unusual search engine taggalaxy.de. This search service is a tool for searching images on Flickr.com, with previews. What makes it unusual is the search interface, which is completely three-dimensional. The process of searching by keyword is reminiscent of some kind of computer game - different celestial bodies fly in outer space, between which you can move in the virtual world.

After the keyword query is completed, a system of the sun and planets that revolve around the star will appear on the screen. Each celestial body has its own purpose and is “signed” with a word. In the center of the galaxy is the sun, the key query, all other bodies are auxiliary words, clarifications. If you click on the sun, this object will come closer, and photographs will fly towards it from all sides and surround it, the content of which is determined by the search query. This three-dimensional model with photographs can be rotated in virtual space, examining in detail and searching for the image of interest. After this, just click on the picture to enlarge it in size, and then you can better examine it and read the description.

While working with this search engine, you can use the scrolling function - it allows you to zoom in or out of three-dimensional planets. The remaining planets that are visible in the search engine interface after the request are auxiliary words that allow you to clarify the request. For example, if you enter “Sky” into the search field, then among the qualifying words-planets there will be the words “clouds”, “sunset”, “blue” and other tags of similar meaning that users specified when using the Flickr.com service. The disadvantage of the search engine is that taggalaxy.de does not support the Russian language, so queries can only be entered in Latin.

Nigma.ru - filters results from other search engines

Among all the search engines that can be found on the Internet, there is a special group of search engines. It differs from all others in that they implement a multi-search function, that is, simultaneous search in several search engines. One of these multi-search systems is the Russian service Nigma.ru.

Nigma contains its own resource base, but in addition it allows you to search immediately across all the most popular search engines, including Google, MSN, Yandex, Rambler, AltaVista, Yahoo and Aport. The mechanism for selecting results in this search engine differs from most accepted methods of site discovery. The fact is that the engine of this service uses clustering of results. What does this mean? Imagine that you decide to find out for yourself what “rendering” is. Having compared the results in different search engines, the Nigma.ru engine selected the most likely results and, at the same time, on the left side of the window, next to the list of search results, displayed the so-called clusters - “visualization”, “creation”, “system”, “rendering”, “process”, “studio max”, “computer graphics” and other words and phrases. These clusters represent a thematic group of found documents. This way, you can quickly narrow your search or specify your search query. In Nigma.ru, you can also use categories to limit the area from which results will be selected - for example, perform a search only taking into account music resources, or display results only for images. Another opportunity of this service may be of interest to schoolchildren and students. Nigma.ru offers the services Nigma-mathematics and Nigma-chemistry. The first is designed for quickly solving simple equations and various arithmetic operations, the second allows you to work with formulas of chemical reactions. The search service recognizes more than a thousand physical, mathematical constants and units of measurement, allowing you to quickly convert from one dimension to another.

Searchme.com - search engine with preview

Everyone knows that in order to find specific information on the Internet, you need to spend a lot of time. When viewing search results, the user basically opens resources at random, not knowing for sure whether he will find what interests him on the new page, or whether it will be a waste of time. The creators of the search service searchme.com thought about this problem and came up with an original solution. The essence of this solution was to create a search engine in which the user could look at a rough thumbnail of the page before it loaded. This would allow us to form an additional opinion about the seriousness of the resource and its content.

The implementation of this idea was simply magnificent - the created search engine has a beautiful animated three-dimensional interface and shows search results in the form of an animated ribbon of thumbnails, thumbnail screenshots of web pages that include the search keyword. The tape with the results, like a film with old negatives, can be scrolled in the browser window using a special slider located under the string of images. The sketches are loaded instantly, so there are no delays in drawing the results. It is especially convenient to work with search results in full-screen mode - then you can even make out the text of articles in the thumbnails of the results. To appreciate the convenience of this system, just try browsing news resources. Photos for the main news on the title page of the web publication will immediately make it clear which news on this resource is considered the most important.

The solution is a specialized torrent search engine. There are a lot of sites on the Internet that search for torrent resources. However, torrent-finder.com has an undeniable advantage over other search engines - this service allows you to search for files on a huge number of trackers simultaneously.

And Yandex is becoming more and more interesting to users. We will tell you about three no-holds-barred search engines that do not collect personal information about you, but, on the contrary, protect your privacy.

Startpage: The World's Most Discrete Search Engine

Startpage.com calls itself "the world's most discrete search engine." Since 2016, the service has been merged with the Ixquick website. As proof of the security of its search, Startpage.com bills itself as the only search engine with an EU privacy certificate.

Startpage.com promises not to store users' IP addresses and, according to the service, does not use cookies for tracking. Additionally, Startpage.com is accessible from the Tor network. The search engine's servers are located in the Netherlands. The site has a handy feature: search results can be viewed using the “Proxy” option, which encrypts the connection to the corresponding web page using a proxy server. Thus, this is a real search engine without restrictions: you can safely view what your provider blocks. Search proxies are the main feature of Startpage, which make it a search engine without censorship. If you need to search without blocking, this service is for you.

DuckDuckGo is the most widely used secure alternative to Google with over ten million searches per day. Even though the search engine's servers are located in the US, DuckDuckGo.com still offers some interesting features.

When searching through DuckDuckGo.com, your IP address will not be stored. The system also does not use cookies for tracking. DuckDuckGo uses HTTPS encryption. You can also enter a query into a search engine via the Tor network. You can also use different themes to customize the appearance of your search page.

You cannot open websites through a proxy here. But taking into account the fact that the system is outside the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation, it is not subject to, for example, the “right to be forgotten” in the sense in which it is understood in our country. The search results may not be perfect, but they are still quite useful. This service is more suitable for those who primarily value anonymity and search without tracking. Or for those who want to find information excluded from search results in the Russian Federation. However, we should warn you: in Russia, DuckDuckGo has become a partner of Yandex, so you can expect everything.

notEvil: searching the Internet that doesn't exist The notEvil search engine allows you to search the Internet using the anonymous Tor network. To do this, you do not need to install any additional software (although you will need it in order to open search results).

This search engine allows you to search on the so-called darknet - that part of the Internet that is usually inaccessible to the average user. Due to blocking, useful services are gradually moving into it, for example, for downloading content.

Anonymous search engines as a safe alternative to Google

All three search engines do not log your IP address or use cookies for tracking. Encryption using HTTPS is provided by all named providers. The DuckDuckGo search engine showed the best search results in the test, and you will receive guaranteed security when choosing an alternative search engine with the Startpage.com system. EU data protection certification confirms that the search engine stands by its promise of search anonymity. NotEvil, in turn, is useful for searching the darknet.