# Web search providers

See also [Search APIs](../../code/technologies/search-apis.md)

A [list of seach engines is also available on wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines)
|Search engine| Wikipedia |Country|comment|
|----|--|----|----|
|                             [Baidu](https://www.baidu.com/)                            |                                                    [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu)                                                    |     China    |                              Search engine in chinese language                              |
|                 [Bing](https://bing.com)                |                          [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bing)                          |   USA   |                 Search engine by Microsoft                 |
|[Brave](https://search.brave.com)| [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_Search) |  USA |Independent search engine with API|
|                 [Exa](exa.ai)                |  |   USA ?   |                 Search API for AI                 |
|[Google](https://www.google.com)| [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search) |USA|Most popular search engine|
|                                [Kagi](https://www.kagi.com)                                |                                                 [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagi)                                                |         USA        |                               Paid ad free web search with own crawler + meta search                               |
|                [Mojeek](https://www.mojeek.com)                |                           [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojeek)                          |  United Kingdom |             Operates its own crawler based index             |
|                                [Shodan](https://www.shodan.io)                                |                                                 [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shodan_(website))                                                |         ?        |                               Search engine for server metadata                               |
|                                                [Sogou](https://www.sogou.com)                                               |                                                                            [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogou)                                                                           |         China         |                                                Search engine by Tencent                                               |
|                [Qwant](https://www.qwant.com)                | [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant) |  France |             Aims to create its own search index together with other European search engine providers             |
|                               [Startpage](https://www.startpage.com)                               |                       [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage)                      |     Netherlands    |                     Uses Bing Search and Google Search                    |
|                                                  [YaCy](https://yaki.net)                                                  |                                              [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy)                                              |          International          |                                      Decentralized Web Crawler and Search Engine (No usefull search results)                                     |
|                                                              [Yandex](https://yandex.com)                                                              |                                                                   [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex_Search)                                                                   |                 Russia                |                                                                         Most popular search engine in Russia                                                                         |
|                                                                            [Yep](https://yep.com)                                                                            |                                                                                             [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yep_(search_engine))                                                                                            |                    Singapore                   |                                                                                           Promises to give 90% of revenue to content creators                                                                                           |

## Adding an alternative provider to Firefox

A new serch engine provider can be added to the firefox browser by navigating to the website of the provider, rightcklicking on the url and click `Add <name of provider>`.
This can only be done if the web page supports it.