Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Google

The 20 closest web search engine alternatives to Google, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 2 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Google? The closest matches are Qwant, PagesJaunes and Microsoft Bing. 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 Google

Google google.fr

Google

Wikidata: search engine by Google LLC

Top 10K · #1,113 German 2 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Google

Summary by Claude

French country version of Google Search, a web search engine that returns results for web pages, images, news, videos and maps in response to user queries.

Who it’s for
Internet users in France
Business model
Advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Google’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

ActuDuckDuckGoRamblerStartpage.comleboncoinL'Internaute20 MinutesMicrosoft BingPagesJaunesQwant

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Google

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

Only in German
  1. 01
    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.

  2. 02
    PagesJaunes pagesjaunes.fr Top 10K French

    pagesjaunes : Trouvez plus que des coordonnées.

    telephone and business directory

  3. 03
    Microsoft Bing bing.com Top 100 English

    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.

  4. 04
    20 Minutes 20minutes.fr Top 10K French

    20 Minutes - Toute l’actualité en direct et les dernières infos en continu

    Suivez l’actualité du jour sur 20 Minutes, média gratuit et indépendant. Politique, Sport, Culture, High Tech, Ecologie… Toute l’info en continu

  5. 05
    L'Internaute linternaute.com Top 10K French

    Linternaute.com : Information, loisirs, culture et découvertes...

    Actualité, voyages, photos, cinéma, restaurants, cartes de voeux, tv, musique, encyclopédie... Un magazine en ligne complet, pratique, ludique et gratuit pour tous !

  6. 06
    leboncoin leboncoin.fr Top 10K English

    leboncoin.fr

    French classified advertisements website

  7. 07
    Startpage.com startpage.com English

    privacy-focused online search engine

  8. 08
    Service Public service-public.fr Top 10K French

    Accueil | Service Public

    Service Public - Vos droits et démarches plus simplement

  9. 09
    Rambler rambler.ru Top 10K Russian

    Рамблер — медийный портал: новости России и мира, почта, поиск, погода

    Рамблер — последние новости сегодня, развлекательные и коммуникационные сервисы: поиск информации в интернете, электронная почта, гороскопы, прогноз погоды, телепрограмма

  10. 10
    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.

  11. 11
    Actu actu.fr Top 10K French

    Actu : toute l'information locale et nationale en direct

    L'actualité en continu dans vos régions et au plus près de chez vous en Normandie, Bretagne, Occitanie, Pays-de-La-Loire, Ile-de-France, Hauts-de-France…

  12. 12
    so.com Top 10K

    360搜索,SO靠谱

    360搜索是安全、精准、可信赖的新一代搜索引擎,依托于360母品牌的安全优势,全面拦截各类钓鱼欺诈等恶意网站,提供更放心的搜索服务。 360搜索 so靠谱。

  13. 13
    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.

  14. 14
    AlloCiné allocine.fr Top 10K French

    AlloCiné : Cinéma, Séries TV, BO de films et séries, Vidéos, DVD et VOD

    AlloCiné, le site de référence du cinéma et des séries tv ! Découvrez notre recherche d'horaires de films, le programme tv de vos séries préférées, l'actualité ciné et séries, les émissions AlloCiné, les dernières bandes-annonces, et plus encore.

  15. 15
    Meteociel meteociel.fr Top 10K

    Meteociel - Météo - observations météo en temps réel et prévisions météo pour la France

    La météo en temps réel et prévisions météo pour la France, observations météo des stations officielles et de la communauté, modèles numériques de prévision

  16. 16
    Seznam seznam.cz Top 1K Czech

    Seznam – najdu tam, co neznám

    Nejnavštěvovanější český internetový portál nabízející vyhledávač, e-mail, aktuální zprávy, předpověď počasí a odkazy, které se mohou hodit.

  17. 17
    Sogou sogou.com Top 10K

    Chinese Internet search engine

  18. 18
    CNIL cnil.fr Top 10K English

    Homepage | CNIL

    national French data protection authority

  19. 19
    Libero libero.it Top 10K Italian

    Libero: Mail, Ricerca e News con aggiornamento quotidiano

    Entra su Libero.it: Mail e Email PEC, Login, le Ultime Notizie con aggiornamento quotidiano, Video, Motore di Ricerca e tanto altro

  20. 20
    Ecosia ecosia.org Top 10K

    Ecosia Firewall

    web search engine and browser

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

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

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