Top 10 Search Engines 2011

There are more then 100 search engines available on Internet, but do we know which search engine offers how many services or which engine is more user friendly or which engine is more swifter then others? Here we unveil the Top Ten search engines used globally wherein you will find all easy answers to your troubling questions. Along with it we are providing our readers Unique Monthly Visitors,  Complete Ranks, Quantcast Ranks and Alexa Ranks.

Dominating the Internet world since 2002 and still ruling the World Wide Web, Google sovereigns all other Search Portals followed by Bing on second position and Yahoo! on third.

Presenting the Top Ten Search Engines which were updated on 7 January 2011 :

1. Google – Founded in late 1997, Google is the Big Daddy of Internet. It offers everything on web which no other search engines have offered till date. “You name it Google has it”.
800,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 1 - Complete Rank |      
1 - Quantcast Rank | 1 - Alexa Rank.| Updated 7/1/2011 |

2. Bing – Unveiled on May 28, 2009 by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, bing (previously in time Live Search, MSN Search and Windows Live Search) is now a search engine. It is advertised  as a “Decision Engine”. Also Bing now powers Yahoo!.
165,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 13 - Complete Rank | 16 - Quantcast Rank | 22 - Alexa Rank.| Updated 7/1/2011 |

3. Yahoo! – Yahoo! is another popular search engine which founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo which was incorporated on March 1, 1995. Being an American Internet corporation, its headquartered in California(CA), United States. Along with Web Portal, Yahoo! Offers Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Video and many more.
160,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *8* - Complete Rank | *28* - Quantcast Rank | NA - Alexa Rank.| Updated 7/1/2011 |

4.  Ask – Also known as Ask Jeeves in UK. This search engine is basically focused on Q&A. It was founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. In late 2010 Ask faced   insuperable competition from Google so the company outsourced its web technology to a third party and came to the basics Q&A site.
125,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 11 - Complete Rank|          14 - Quantcast Rank | 52 - Alexa Rank.| Updated 7/1/2011 |

5.  Aol. - Aol. earlier known as American Online, is an American company which is a Internet services and media company. With over 30 million members worldwide, Aol. is  headquartered in New York(NY) and was founded on 1983 as Control Video Corporation.
33,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *336* - Complete Rank | *240* - Quantcast Rank | NA - Alexa Rank.| Updated 7/1/2011 |

6. MyWebSearch – Basically its famous for MyWebSearch Toolbar. Many antivirus companies discourages this toolbar, but its status adware is disputed. It also provides My Way Assistant, My Way Speedbar, My All Search, My Way Speedbar.
19,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *65* - Complete Rank | 409 - Quantcast Rank | 225 - Alexa Rank.| Updated 7/1/2011 |

7. Lycos – Started in1994 Lycos started as a research project, it is now a search portal now which allows users to pull videos from YouTube, Yahoo! Video, Google Video, My Space Video. In August 2010 the company was sold to Ybrant Digital for $36 million, an Internet based marketing company having its base in Hyderabad, India.
4,300,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 837 - Complete Rank | 347 - Quantcast Rank | 2,097 - Alexa Rank.| Updated 7/1/2011 |

8. Dogpile – Starting its operations in November 1996. Dogpile is a metasearch engine which extracts results from Google, Bing, Yahoo! Search and many other popular search engines. It is owned by InfoSpace, Inc.
2,900,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 700 - Complete Rank | 876 - Quantcast Rank | 3,545 - Alexa Rank.| Updated 7/1/2011 |

9. WebCrawler – Just like Dogpile, WebCrawler is also a metasearch engine. It is the first search engine which offered 'full text search'. It is owned by InfoSpace, Inc.
2,700,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 128 - Complete Rank | 1,281 - Quantcast Rank | 4,507 - Alexa Rank. | Updated 7/1/2011 |

10. Info – Info is another search portal, listed amongst the top 10 search portals. It was created in 2003 and is operated by Afilias since its creation.
2,600,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 371 - Complete Rank | 286 - Quantcast Rank | 5,283 - Alexa Rank.| Updated 7/1/2011 |