Top Ten Worst Search Engines

What is the #1 WORST search engine of time?! You vote!
The Top Ten
1 Start MySearch Dial

Okay, I've seen bad search engine, but this is a virus. Just a virus. I got it while searching "good and bad search engines" then got - THIS VIRUS. I had to reboot my computer and corrupted some of my files. This is bad. Bad.

Instead of seeing the actual search engine, I instead saw a lot of ways to uninstall Start MySearch Dial. That should say how bad of a virus it is.

Dang that is bad I would say that's a trolling search engine but that doesn't even give you an answer

I gave my friend this and some of their files got corrupted

2 Delta Search

Yeah, this doesn't exist. All it says is "Remove from Chrome" or "Remove from" whatever. That's all I need to know.

This search engine doesn't exist. It redirects me to yahoo for some reason

It Redirects me to a "GoDaddy Website for some reason

Pretty gay if I say so myself, and I do.

3 Dogpile

Why does this need to exist. It looks so outdated and when you enter the site it automatically searches its own url

It is amazing, don't diss it I use it everyday, it's my life don't bully me!

I think "pile" means crap and doges are better than plain old dogs

It is basically google and yahoo with a different name

4 Metacrawler

This is the worst search engine I have ever encountered.

Seems to just direct you to a german page, I think hacked

This isn't even a search engine

5 PCHSearch&Win

I searched this topic on PCHSearch&Win just because I could not believe how bad this search engine was, and Lo and Behold, what search engine is at number 5 of the worst search engines? PCHSearch&Win. Yep, that says it all.

Tried to get me to search and win or I would, "Lose out on oppurtunity to win monies." That spelling is exactly what it said.

Takes you to a few, mostly unrelated sites - seldom what you are looking for.

Brings up useless information, sometimes not even close to the keywords.

6 DuckDuckGo

DDG isn't so much a search engine a a compilation of other search engines (Wolfram is awesome, for Bing see above). Their own crawl index is weak at best. If it is fast it is because it really isn't finding anything. Quickly and reliably finding nothing useful, usually with their own horn tooting somewhere near the top of the returns.

DuckDuckGo is THE way to go if you don't want all your personal information sold to the highest bidder. It's safe, reliable and fast.

It is the best! It doesn't track you, unlike Google, which tracks everything you put in the search box. I have no idea why it is in this list.

I think it is too early to say that DuckDuckGo will kick Google's Bootay, People are talking about it, but you know Google is Google and period.

7 Bing

Bing has very limited and skewed search results that never take me where I want to go. Bing seems to have an agreement with Microsoft that makes it the default search engine on every new computer that I use which is very annoying. I understand how Google thinks and how Google searches, why would I want to use a less competent program that always seems to omit the particular search results that I am actually looking for.

This is all incorrect! Bing is AMAZING! In fact, I am using it right now! There is nothing google has that bing doesn't. I also like the feature where you can hide the news, and the background pictures everyday are amazing! Bing is a perfect website for someone who just needs to search the web.

Worst EVER! It never pulls anything close to what I want. I put the exact same thing in Google (best ever) and the thing I want is the first result on page 1.

Worst search engine in my opinion. It never pulls what I request. Also, Google seems to know what I am thinking. No intuitiveness at all from Bing!

8 Ask.com

It is a worse search engine. It is invasive to any computer with out knowing. I've difficult to get rid of this ass. It mess up with all my computer. I get rid off few time but again came back. Because of its invasive nature and worthless I don't recommend this to any body.

Absolutely horrible. Atrocious layout, atrocious order of search results and atrocious look. Besides, why would you even be using this anyways when you could used a better search engine such as google?

TAKE BING OFF NOW! ask is the least dependable search engine, whenever I use it I never get the information I need.

A lot worse than bing. The site is and looks awful, and the whole search is broken.

9 AOL

The Buick of search engines...

Aol? Are they still there?

This is marvellous! I love it

10 Search.com

I searched youtube and it didn't know what it was

Google won't come up either! This is just evil

Completlly broken search engine, Bing does so much better than this.

It can't find YouTube or Facebook what?

The Contenders
11 Google Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.

Yes, something has happened to Google in recent years. At one time you could get a very deep information search on Google. This is useful, for example, for software programmers trying to find answers to the most difficult, recondite programming bugs. There seems to be a trend, starting about ten years ago (mid to late 2000's) by the Google developers to transform from deep to "relevant." You can see this for yourself on some web searches, there is a message stating that some links were not shown because they were not "relevant." The problem is that what is relevant is someone's opinion. I think there is some kind of urban myth out there that Google embodies the cutting edge in information processing, as in artificial intelligence and the like. But it looks to me that the way Google prioritizes hits on a search is based about 90 percent on web traffic volume--popularity. That's not exactly a world shaking idea, is it? And the other ten percent seems to be the "relevance" thing, which ...more

TERRIBLE GOOGLE coagulates garbage soup out of your key words so that only the 5HIT floats to the top of the list. Worst of all is the level of relevance has been down for years. It is so frustrating and "putting text in quotes to force a find" - does not work anymore. Also repeating words worked at one time to force relevance, but not anymore - Google sweeps together garbage soup - something has gone wrong. Try to buy a toy in the UK or US when in another country is impossible - it forces local region sales and ignores your UK or US options - A TOWER OF BUGS A MILE HIGH AND NO FEEDBACK TO LET THEM KNOW. Political correctness algorithms are kicking in and they are acting against both academic and scientific facts that are timeless and last forever - google is like a dead rat in your floorboards it stinks of PC without hope of recovery. The lack of feedback is equal to the arrogance of dead Roman emperors who thought they were gods.

Google has sucked for a very long time now. Everything you search brings up some a link to purchase something. Even if you already have the thing you're looking up. It doesn't search phrases any more just random words, like word soup, even if you put what you're searching for in quotations it still won't look up what your looking for. Google is a evil corporate sale out only interested in working with money grubbing corporations to sell you products that you don't want or don't need.

Google is the ONLY company who can introduce a "New and Improved" and take away features and remove usability at the same time. Only to reintroduce those features as new in the future because they have no genuine features. They 'reinvent" features that are 15 years old and market them as new. Google's search results SUCK. The use of punctuation to hone search results is NOW INEFFECTIVE.

12 Answers.com

I like answers for the fun articles but for actual answers, forget IT.

Can never get through a whole search without it freezing!

Horrible internet speed

The no answers engine

13 Internet Explorer

This is not a search engine but this came from the SEVENTH CIRCLE OF HELL for god sake

Well, at least you can't have the other ones without this one, you know what I mean?

Whoever put this on here is such an idiot. this is not for search, it's a BROWSER

You guys are idiots, this isn't even a search engine.

14 Norton Safe Search

This is the worst search engine ever! It never takes me to what I'm searching for, just leads me from one search to another. I hate it!

This auto decides it should be the default search engine without asking for permision

Please! Why does this exist?!?!

It horrible! yes why does this darn thing exist!

15 Yahoo

If you want to totally waste an entire day, try to contact "Yahoo Customer, We Don't Care! Department".
They put you in a circular loop sending you to the customer care site, then to the sign in site and then to the customer care site and give you a number to call, "We are experiencing long wait times, so depending on your age and health, you may want to hang up, give up and go to Google, or you can be redirected to customer Care online which will bring you right back here after about an hour, final solution, you can wait on hold, listening to our annoying Yahoo refrain over and over and over again for three or four hours"..
Today is Sunday the 16th. of November 11:27 AM, I have been on hold since 8:22 AM, after I was dropped twice after waiting and additional two hours.
I have been trying to reset my email password, that Yahoo dropped for some reason, and then locked my account.
To unlock the account they put you in the circle of Hell...
Good Luck to anyone who may be ...more

I have worked tirelessly to get SEO for my businesses website. Despite being #1 local on Google, #1 organic on Google, #1 organic on Bing.. my company is not even found hardly on Yahoo. I am outranked by a company 1/20 the size of my company who's website was done in like the 80's (Not Mobile Ready), I am outranked by a company that is no longer in business- In fact I purchased the majority of his inventory. To say Yahoo sucks would be giving them too much credit. They must have some of the worst SEO analysis people in history and thus is why they make ZERO money and are being crushed by Google!

My Chrome seems to be in love with this crappy search engine since it doesn't matter how many times I delete this sorry excuse for a search engine it always comes back...hell I can't even open up a new tab without it coming back...this search engine can be compared to a virus considering it doesn't go away no matter how hard you try...hell I had less trouble getting rid of Norton

Absolutely the worst I've ever come across. I went to download firefox and some adware site (like softonic for example) comes up BEFORE THE OFFICIAL SITE, and there's no way of telling them apart. Also, yahoo is powered by bing, so that should raise a red flag right there. Absolutely the worst search engine I've ever seen. I 100% recommend using anything BUT yahoo.

16 Wow.com

It sucks. I used it to get here and almost died from cancer.

17 Yandex

HOLD IT, Yandex is terrible. The worst ever. Why does it get your results in different languages! I'm sure that the browser is a virus, it sound like Yontoo. This is bad. I hate it. MISERABLE.

Never heard of it? There's a reason...

Communist search engine

I LOVE YANDEX!

18 Askjeeves

Its retarded

19 Millionshort

Literally this search engine removes the first million results, hence its name. So all you get is unrelated crap

The search engine that wants to be crap.

20 Gigablast

I refuse to belive this site was designed after 1995.

Horrid style. Horrid results.

21 Kiddle.co

I hated it, I searched one thing: hello! When I searched hello, it gave me coloring pages what

22 ChaCha

It's great and you can do the ChaCha with the features

Worst search results

23 Hotbot

Not That Great As A Search Engine It Often directs me to ask.com sometimes which is terrible so I don't recommend it at all

24 Thesmartsearch.net

Doesn't exist nowadays...

25 Sweet Search

It's not a search engine, it's a virus

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