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Update on 20th of March 2026, found on heise.de
Initially found on arstechnica.com Update on the 23rd of August 2025 based in information from heise.de.
Today there are only four general web search indexes in the western hemisphere and a new european one was anounced on the 7th of August 2025:
Google google.com
Google's index "has all the important parts of the web, plus niche sites, abandoned blogs, sketchy copies of legitimate websites, copies of those copies, and AI-rephrased copies of the copied copies—basically everything."
... and google's index is currently subject of anti trust trial with the question whether to open it to others👍Test Search for UGPL Universal General Public License successful
Bing bing.com
Bing's index is used by the most of other and meta search engines such us DuckDuckGo, Kagi and so on.👍Test Search for UGPL Universal General Public License successful
Brave search.brave.com
"We could be indexing five to 10 times more pages, but we choose not to because not all the web has signal. Most web pages are basically noise," said Brave's search head Josep Pujol.👍 Test Search for UGPL Universal General Public License successful
Mojeek https://www.mojeek.com/ started in 2024, has as of 2025 over 9 billion pages indexed
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Ecosia https://www.ecosia.org/ joined forces with Qwant https://www.qwant.com/ to establish an own independent search index
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Every search product in the western hemisphere (including AI tools) relies on one or more of these indexes to probe the web.
Other also important search engines and web indexes are:
The russian yandex search engine yandex.ru which has a now new start page at dzen.ru
🔴 Test Search for UGPL Universal General Public License failed on 20th of March 2026
The chinese Baidu search engine baidu.com
🔴 Test Search for UGPL Universal General Public License failed on 20th of March 2026