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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 18 ms
01 · Entity
About 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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Google
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Google, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Kåret til Årets Mediehus 2026
TV 2 er Norges beste nettsted for nyheter, sport, underholdning, vær, tv-guide og video
Very close cos 0.913 - 02
VG
Siste nytt hvert minutt på Norges største nettsted. Nyheter fra Norge og verden, sport og underholdning.
Very close cos 0.913 - 03
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.
Very close cos 0.907 - 05
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.
Very close cos 0.904 - 06
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.
Very close cos 0.901 - 07
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.
Very close cos 0.897 - 08
company owned by System1
Very close cos 0.896 - 09
privacy-focused online search engine
Very close cos 0.896 - 10
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.
Very close cos 0.895 - 11
Seznam – najdu tam, co neznám
Nejnavštěvovanější český internetový portál nabízející vyhledávač, e-mail, aktuální zprávy, předpověď počasí a odkazy, které se mohou hodit.
Very close cos 0.897 - 12
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
Very close cos 0.896 - 13
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.
Very close cos 0.895 - 14
Ecosia Firewall
web search engine and browser
Close cos 0.886 - 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.
Close cos 0.889 - 16
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。
Close cos 0.888 - 17
Nachrichten, aktuelle Schlagzeilen und Videos - n-tv.de
Nachrichten seriös, schnell und kompetent. Artikel und Videos aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Börse, Sport und aller Welt.
Close cos 0.889 - 18
LiveInternet @ Статистика и дневники, почта и поиск
LiveInternet - крупный сервис дневников и сообществ, авторитетный сервис статистики для сайтов
Close cos 0.887 - 19
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...
Close cos 0.886 - 20
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!
Close cos 0.886
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.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Google is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Web servers
- Google Web Server header server: gws
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Google adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on google.no 19/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on google.no 10/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on google.no 8/20
- Atlassian · not on google.no 7/20
- Apple Business · not on google.no 6/20
- OpenAI · not on google.no 6/20
- Miro · not on google.no 6/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on google.no 5/20
- Dropbox · not on google.no 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on google.no 4/20
- nginx · not on google.no 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on google.no 4/20
- React · not on google.no 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on google.no 3/20
- Next.js · not on google.no 3/20