Google is a popular search engine used by most people around the world. Whenever we have a doubt, we will go to Google to clarify it. Google is also useful for doing assignments and research. Not only a search engine Google has a lot of other apps too. Some of them are Google maps, Google pay, Google Drive, Google keyboard, and more. But Google also has competitors like us. They are not low. They too have great features like Google. Let’s see about them. Here are the top 10 competitors of Google.
1. Facebook
Facebook is a social media platform used by business people, organizations, and many common people. As of 2019, Facebook has 2.5 billion+ users. Facebook allows users to make new online friends, post their pictures, and a lot more. Facebook has about 22.1% of internet ads, whereas Google has approximately 37% of internet ads across the world.
2. Bing
Bing is a search engine from Microsoft and was previously known as Live Search, Window Live Search, and MSN Search. Google is the dominating search engine, with 92.62% of the market share, whereas Bing has 2.63%. Microsoft created Bing in 2009 with the name MSN. And then it was known as Window Live Search, and now Bing. It provides old and reputable pages to its users.
3. DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo, is an excellent search engine launched in 2008 and named after Duck, Duck, Goose(kid’s game). It is believed as an anti-Google search engine as its graph is moving upward direction. When it started, it had only a few thousand searches every day. But in 2019, it had more than 48 million searches per day. DuckDuckGo is completely different from other search engines. It won’t profile users and protect privacy. By profiling, it will show the same result to its users at a given time of searches.
4. Baidu
Baidu is a China-based company that offers internet-related products and services. It is the Chinese Google. Similar to Google, Baidu has almost many products, like music, games, maps, searches, and more. But it mainly focuses on Chinese organizations and market. Chinese is one of the most complex languages. Baidu serves as the best search engine to Chinese people to understand everything clearly.
5. Yandex
Yandex is a Russian-based tech company that provides search services. It uses machine learning for the products. As of 2020, Yandex is a successful company with 10,227 employees and has revenue of $3.02 billion and a profit of $173 million. In August 2021, Yandex made a $1 billion deal with Uber for food, delivery, and self driving. Yandex is the top search engine in Russia. Google is behind Yandex there. But it occupies fifth place globally.
6. Amazon
Amazon is the largest eCommerce platform in the world. It is one of the FAANG companies Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google. In 2020, the revenue of Amazon increased from 34% to $380 billion. Amazon has a share of 10.3% in the US digital ad market, says eMarketer. It is now in third place in US digital ad space, where first and second places were occupied by Google and Facebook.
7. Apple
Apple is a big company that works with smartphones, OS software, and also other products and services. The iOS app Store provides more than 2 million apps for its users. Apple has 22.86% of the market share in Mobile OS market over the world. And it holds 13% of share in total smartphone market share and occupies the third position. The first and second positions are captured by Samsung and Huawei. Even though Google is trying to compete in smartphone field, the market share of Google is only 2.28%.
8. Huawei
Huawei is a Chinese-based company that produces products, smartphones and consumer electronic devices. As of 2018, Huawei had 188000 employees of which 76000 were working under the research and development field. Huawei has a market share of 18.6% worldwide, as of 2019.
9. Amazon Web Services
Amazon web services(AWS) offer cloud services like storage, database, customer service, analytics, and more to everyone, including government and organizations. AWS is in the top position in cloud services and has a market share of 34%, whereas Google has only 9%. Even though AWS and GCP both have similar characteristics, AWS is best at handling complex environments.
10. Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is the second popular and biggest platform in cloud computing, with the total market share of 19%. Google is in the third position. But, Google had a lot of future partnership plans in this field. Both Google and Microsoft Azure are doing best in the field of cloud computing with minor differences.
