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 TV 2 Direkte, VG and NRK.no. 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.no

Google

Top 10K · #5,086 German 2 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Google

Summary by Claude

Norwegian country domain of Google's web search engine, providing web, image, news and map search along with access to other Google services.

Who it’s for
Internet users in Norway
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

QwantStartpage.comMapQuestMicrosoft BingDuckDuckGoFINN.noNaverNRK.noVGTV 2 Direkte

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Google

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

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  1. 01
    TV 2 Direkte tv2.no Top 10K Norwegian Bokmål

    Kåret til Årets Mediehus 2026

    TV 2 er Norges beste nettsted for nyheter, sport, underholdning, vær, tv-guide og video

  2. 02
    VG vg.no Top 10K Norwegian

    VG

    Siste nytt hvert minutt på Norges største nettsted. Nyheter fra Norge og verden, sport og underholdning.

  3. 03
    NRK.no nrk.no Top 10K Norwegian Bokmål

    NRK.no – nyheter, tv og radio fra Norge og hele verden

    NRK.no er Norges største tilbud på nett: nyheter fra Norge og verden, lokalnyheter, radio- og tv-program, podcast, vær, helse-, kultur-, underholdning-, humor- og debattstoff.

  4. 04
    Naver naver.com Top 1K Korean

    NAVER

    네이버 메인에서 다양한 정보와 유용한 컨텐츠를 만나 보세요

  5. 05
    FINN.no finn.no Top 10K Norwegian Bokmål

    FINN.no – mulighetenes marked

    Skal du kjøpe eller selge, stort eller smått, så er FINN.no stedet. Vi er der for deg når du skal selge hytta di, finne en pent brukt sofa, fly billigst mulig til Praha eller finne drømmebilen.

  6. 06
    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.

  7. 07
    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.

  8. 08
    MapQuest mapquest.com Top 10K English

    company owned by System1

  9. 09
    Startpage.com startpage.com English

    privacy-focused online search engine

  10. 10
    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.

  11. 11
    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.

  12. 12
    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

  13. 13
    Dagbladet dagbladet.no Top 10K Norwegian Bokmål

    Nyheter i dag: Dagbladet med dagens nyheter 24 timer i døgnet

    Nyhetsnettsted med 1.2 millioner daglige lesere. Oppdateres døgnet rundt med nyheter fra inn- og utland, kultur, sport og underholdning.

  14. 14
    Ecosia ecosia.org Top 10K

    Ecosia Firewall

    web search engine and browser

  15. 15
    web.de Top 10K

    WEB.DE - kostenlose E-Mail-Adresse, FreeMail & Nachrichten

    Sichere Kommunikation, aktuelle Nachrichten und nützliche Online-Services - alles an einem Ort. Einfach, kostenlos und zuverlässig.

  16. 16
    Infoseek[インフォシーク] infoseek.co.jp Top 10K Japanese

    Infoseek[インフォシーク] - 楽天が運営するニュースサイト

    Infoseek(インフォシーク)は、社会、経済、国際、芸能、スポーツ、IT、天気等の最新ニュースを配信しています。楽天ポイントが獲得出来るお小遣いコンテンツ(ポイ活)やお得な情報も充実しています。

  17. 17
    n-tv n-tv.de Top 1K German

    Nachrichten, aktuelle Schlagzeilen und Videos - n-tv.de

    Nachrichten seriös, schnell und kompetent. Artikel und Videos aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Börse, Sport und aller Welt.

  18. 18

    LiveInternet @ Статистика и дневники, почта и поиск

    LiveInternet - крупный сервис дневников и сообществ, авторитетный сервис статистики для сайтов

  19. 19
    ukr.net Top 10K Ukrainian

    UKR.NET: Всі новини України, останні новини дня в Україні та Світі

    Свіжі новини України, останні новини з-за кордону, новини політики, економіки, спорту, культури, технологій, шоу-бізнесу...

  20. 20
    GMX gmx.net Top 10K German

    GMX - kostenlose E-Mail, Cloud, Nachrichten & Freemail

    Kostenlose E-Mail-Adresse erstellen, Nachrichten lesen und Fotos & Dateien in der GMX Cloud sicher speichern. Jetzt registrieren!

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to google.no’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.

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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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