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Google Search

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This leading search engine offers personalized search results, supporting images, videos, and news queries. It features voice search, predictive text, and real-time suggestions, accessible on all devices. With multi-language support and AI enhancements, it provides fast and relevant information for global users.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Chrome OS
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • Android Wear
2.6 / 5 Avg rating (28)
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Features

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  1.  Browser extension
  2.  Full-Text Search
  3.  Google Apps integration
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Web-Based
  6.  No registration required
  7. Google Ads icon  Google Ads integration
  8.  AI-Powered
  9.  Voice Search

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Comment summary: Google Search provides fast and accurate results, appreciated by some users for its efficiency. However, many users express privacy concerns, criticizing Google's data collection and tracking practices. Several comments suggest switching to DuckDuckGo for better privacy. Negative feedback often highlights issues like ads, data tracking, and superficial modifications to search results. While Google's search abilities are praised, the privacy policies remain a common concern for users.
Top Positive Comment
ab1
May 15, 2022
-3

Decent results given varying quality of content on the Internet.

Google just helps.

Top Negative Comment
foerno
Sep 15, 2015
19

google:

  • collects your data
  • alters your search results
  • offers you its own websites in the results

ddg:

  • doesn't track you
  • shows the same search results for everyone everywhere (+ gives you the option to localize them to a particular country)
  • lets you search thousands of other engines through !bangs (e.g. !g takes you to google, !bi to bing images, !w to wikipedia...)
  • allows you to customize the look and feel
  • is community-based

switch to duckduckgo!

Gamer_M
Nov 3, 2015

same

John Fastman
Dec 8, 2016

foerno's comment above is accurate. Google track not just your searches, but where you go online, what you write in your emails, to whom and much else besides. Their business model consists of building up a profile of their users and making a profit from this. It is far worse than being followed around by a private detective. You cannot predict who will have this information in 20 years time and how it could be used. We already know that intelligence agencies are asking companies like Google and Yahoo to hand this information over to them. This applies to people who use Google, Yahoo, Bing even if they don't live in the US.

So alternatives to Google search: several. DuckDuckGo is one. Another is Startpage, which searches Google on your behalf and gives you their results without ever revealing to Google that it was you that searched for the information. Another option is Disconnect Search, which does a similar thing.

Asumeh
Dec 3, 2024
1

I'm just restating everyone's comments at this point, but you know it's true: Google is simply a privacy nightmare. An additional problem for me - every time I try to make a Google search on my computer (with Firefox), I would get a "Secure Connection Failed" error telling me something about the server using "key pinning (HPKP)"; it works everywhere else (on my Google Pixel 8a with Brave or Mull; on other computers), but not on my computer. So basically now Google serves as useless for me. (This issue also seems to apply to almost every single Google-owned domain, including YouTube; not just Google Search.) (I have yet to reinstall Firefox to see if the install being corrupt is the issue. Even afterward though, Google is still a bad service overall.)

The most reliable alternative for me is Brave Search, so have at it.

RemovedUser
Apr 17, 2024
3

Switch to duckduckgo!

tvgoing1
May 5, 2023
1

Recent update makes you unable to get certain results with X page number. Look for cats and keep going until you reach the end. Yes, the number of cat websites stop showing up. This is how google wants you to search, only the top SEO websites not normal websites.

TBayAreaPat
Sep 21, 2022
1

Google Search has gotten old.. and doesn't seem to want to check on outdated & spam-type info... aside from having more ways to mine your info than the average person can easily see. Gimmicky graphics can be an annoyance that Google won't make easy to turn off. I am liking PreSearch as an alternative. At the least, it's great to have an additional set of different results. Google results seem hung up on people and culture when I'm looking for factual info.

Realmy
Sep 17, 2022
-4

While Google isn't all too well in terms of privacy, I can overlook it if it gives me a really good searching experience with tons of smart answers, which it does.

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What is Google Search?

Google Search is the most popular search engine on the Internet. Google can search for webpages, images, videos, news, and various other forms of media.

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    US flagGoogle
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.6 (28 ratings)
  • Alternatives

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  • News

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hebrew
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Malay
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese

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Our users have written 25 comments and reviews about Google Search, and it has gotten 972 likes

Google Search was added to AlternativeTo by Valentin on Dec 5, 2009 and this page was last updated May 21, 2025. Google Search is sometimes referred to as Google.