Category
Search engines
Who AI recommends when asked about search engines. 23 brands on the list today.
Google is named in three in five answers. DuckDuckGo, next on score, in four in five.
- Brands listed
- 23
- Leader
- 100.0, named in three in five
- Lead
- 8.7 points
- Over DuckDuckGo, 91.3
- Not tied
- Category average
- 33.8
- Average place 5.8
- Across the 23
Google leads. 13 of the 23 are named in only a fifth of answers.
Where each brand lands in the answer, from first place to tenth, and how often it is named at all.
| # | Brand | Place | Named | Score | Sector |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.0 | 60% | 100.0 | Platform | |
| 2= | DuckDuckGo | 2.0 | 80% | 91.3 | Platform |
| 2= | Microsoft | 2.0 | 60% | 91.3 | Platform |
| 4 | Semantic Scholar | 3.0 | 20% | 64.0 | Platform |
| 5 | Qwant | 3.7 | 60% | 53.8 | Platform |
| 6= | PubMed | 4.0 | 20% | 49.0 | Health |
| 6= | Verizon | 4.0 | 40% | 49.0 | B2C |
| 8= | Brave Search | 5.0 | 60% | 36.0 | Platform |
| 8= | Scopus | 5.0 | 20% | 36.0 | B2B |
| 10 | Startpage | 5.3 | 60% | 32.1 | Platform |
| 11= | MetaGer | 6.0 | 20% | 25.0 | Platform |
| 11= | Web of Science | 6.0 | 20% | 25.0 | Platform |
| 13 | Ecosia | 6.3 | 60% | 21.8 | B2C |
| 14= | Baidu | 7.0 | 20% | 16.0 | Platform |
| 14= | IEEE Xplore | 7.0 | 20% | 16.0 | Media |
| 14= | Swisscows | 7.0 | 20% | 16.0 | Platform |
| 14= | Yandex | 7.0 | 20% | 16.0 | Platform |
| 18 | Searx | 7.5 | 40% | 12.3 | Platform |
| 19= | ACM | 8.0 | 20% | 9.0 | Platform |
| 19= | Mojeek | 8.0 | 20% | 9.0 | Platform |
| 21= | arXiv | 9.0 | 20% | 4.0 | Platform |
| 21= | Neeva | 9.0 | 40% | 4.0 | B2C |
| 23 | Dimensions | 10.0 | 20% | 1.0 | Platform |
= means tied on score
How this list works
AI is asked about search engines every day. A brand’s score reflects where it lands in the answers that name it, so 100 means named first every time. Named is the share of answers that mention it at all. Names that fail our checks are counted but not listed.