Most Popular Search Engines 1993-2021

In this data visualization video I look at the most popular search engines based on average monthly users, the industry standard when comparing search engines and websites. It does not take into account page views nor unique visitors. Some of the data includes approximate numbers as the data available skipped years. The data comes from Wikipedia, Google Books, Alexa PR, and a few search engine trackers.

I also include screenshots of certain search engines as they looked during that particular year.

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Above the Ocean by Infraction

Epic Motivation by Roman Cano

[LtexprsGaming]

The fact that Google has half the population using it's search engine and like 90% of the market share just amazes me.

[sbeatty]

It's been a blessed journey subscribed to your channel and how far you've come. Your work is legendary and have my utmost respect.

[HoldMyBlade]

0:26: Webcrawler: First is mine!!
second later
Lycos: Nice one

[glennk]

I'm very happy to see DuckDuckGo climb.

[johnan]

Microsoft is busy changing the name of their search engine.

[HoldMyBlade]

I was making this while you were also making it

Also nice music.

[DavidKimFX]

Yes! It was Webcrawler, AltaVista, and Yahoo in the early 90s for me!

[mcgoo]

I like how AOL was just like “I didn’t hear no bell.” And came back up haha

[Denali_Rebel]

Honestly amazed that anyone still is using AOL and shocked DDG isn’t higher on the list

[nicos]

interesting to see aol still holding on in 2021

[matt]

Growing up I remember always switching between Altavista and Web Crawler.

[Terrakinetic]

Google stopped giving accurate search results in the late 2010s. I use firefox to simultaneously search google, bing, yandex, duck, and yahoo. When I am searching for worksheets to make homework for students, google consistently hides the free content and forces me towards the paid worksheets.

[MrVariant]

lol fun to learn about the OG's before google. I remember altavista

[squeallymaniac]

DuckDuckGo a *cult classic with longevity.* Coming for 4th place!

[duranyt]

I remember Ask Jeeves really well early in elementary school brings back a lot of memories as a kid in the computer lab and on the home computer also sad to see Yahoo falling away like that

[garthst.claire]

Wow, I had forgotten that it even existed until now, but I think I can remember actually using MSN search when I was little, because I liked the butterfly. Though most of the other search engines are unknown to me. Like now that "dino: short for dinosaur? Better ask Jeeves" joke from the Simpsons finally makes sense.

[JamesDTeller]

Google: Here hold my beer I'll show you how it's done.

[rifleattheplayground]

Its wild that I can watch this and it just brings up memories of my growth from child in the 90s with my first computer to now. 😐

[LaurentSFN]

AltaVista was the best in the 90's.

[jason.h.zager]

Altavista always has special place in my heart