Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Microsoft Bing

The 20 closest web search engine alternatives to Microsoft Bing, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Microsoft Bing? The closest matches are Google, MSN and Perplexity. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Microsoft Bing

Microsoft Bing bing.com

Search - Microsoft Bing

Search with Microsoft Bing and use the power of AI to find information, explore webpages, images, videos, maps, and more. A smart search engine for the forever curious.

Wikidata: web search engine from Microsoft

Top 100 · #47 English 5 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Microsoft Bing

Summary by Claude

Microsoft's web search engine, providing web, image, video, news, map and shopping search along with an AI chat assistant (Copilot).

Who it’s for
General internet users
Business model
Advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Microsoft Bing’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

MozAnswersSearch Engine Journalcloud.microsoftSemrushStartpage.comDuckDuckGoMicrosoftPerplexityMSN

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Microsoft Bing

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Microsoft Bing, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    MSN msn.com Top 100 English

    MSN

    collection of Internet sites by Microsoft

  2. 02
    Perplexity perplexity.ai Top 1K English

    Perplexity

    Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

  3. 03
    Microsoft microsoft.com Top 100 English

    Microsoft – AI, Cloud, Productivity, Computing, Gaming & Apps

    Explore Microsoft products and services and support for your home or business. Shop Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams, Xbox, Windows, Azure, Surface and more.

  4. 04
    DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com Top 1K English

    DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

    The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

  5. 05
    Startpage.com startpage.com English

    privacy-focused online search engine

  6. 06
    Semrush semrush.com Top 10K English

    Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility

    Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.

  7. 07
    cloud.microsoft Top 100 English

    Microsoft 365 - Sign into Copilot

    Microsoft 365 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive, with Microsoft Copilot built in to help you create, communicate, and summarize information. Formerly Office 365.

  8. 08
    Search Engine Journal searchenginejournal.com Top 10K English

    Search Engine Journal - The AI Search & SEO News That Matters

    Search Engine Journal is the last independent voice in search, sharing the latest AI search, SEO, GEO & AEO news that impact marketing strategy and business growth.

  9. 09
    Answers answers.com Top 10K English

    Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions

    Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want

  10. 10
    Similarweb similarweb.com Top 10K English

    Similarweb: AI-Powered Digital Data Intelligence Solutions

    Similarweb is an AI-powered digital data company providing real-time market intelligence, competitive insights, and consumer trends to accelerate business growth.

  11. 11
    Moz moz.com Top 10K English

    Moz - SEO Software for Smarter Marketing

    Backed by the largest community of SEOs on the planet, Moz builds the tools that make SEO, content marketing, market research, digital PR, and local SEO easy. Start your free trial today!

  12. 12
    Qwant qwant.com English

    Qwant - The search engine that values you as a user, not as a product

    Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.

  13. 13
    Yahoo yahoo.com Top 100 English

    Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos

    Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!

  14. 14
    Copy.ai copy.ai English

    Future proof your business with GTM AI

    Introducing the first-ever GTM AI platform. Automate hundreds of tedious, repetitive tasks and empower your team to scale success like never before.

  15. 15
    Giphy giphy.com Top 10K English

    GIPHY - Be Animated

    GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.

  16. 16
    MapQuest mapquest.com Top 10K English

    company owned by System1

  17. 17
    Computerworld computerworld.com Top 10K English

    Computerworld

    Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: generative AI, Windows, mobile, Apple/enterprise, office suites, productivity software, and collaboration software, as well as relevant information about companies such as Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI and Google.

  18. 18
    Yandex yandex.com Top 1K English

    Yandex — fast Internet search

    Yandex finds anything: webpages, images, music, good. Solve any problem — from everyday to a scientific one. Search by text, voice or image.

  19. 19
    MakeUseOf makeuseof.com Top 10K English

    MUO - Technology, Simplified.

    MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.

  20. 20
    Grok grok.com Top 10K English

    Grok

    Grok is an AI assistant built by SpaceXSI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to bing.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Microsoft Bing uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Microsoft Bing is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Email hosting
DNS hosting
  • Azure DNS NS ns4-204.azure-dns.info
  • NS1 NS dns1.p09.nsone.net
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

Stack changes

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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