AI-powered search engines will be an excellent alternative to Google. These engines are integrated with AI technologies that allow them to provide more precise, relevant, and personalised user results. Moreover, they manage natural language queries, understand the user’s intention, and deliver answers from various sources and formats. In this article, we explore a few of the best AI search engine tools that can be an alternative to Google.

Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI is an advanced search engine tool that leverages sophisticated Artificial Intelligence technology, including OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, in orde to offer direct answers to questions in the form of summaries and citations as search results.

Perplexity AI can be considered a significant step from traditional search engines, which provide a simple list of links and allow users to access data swiftly and effortlessly despite having to sift through irrelevant content or navigate through a number of pages. In this context, Perplexity AI is akin to the Google PageRank algorithm, which uses citations to analyse the quality and significance of a webpage.

Perplexity AI is free of dull advertisements and does not ask for a signup or login. Moreover, it offers a secure and private search experience as it does not sneak into our personal data.

The pro version of Perplexity AI opens the door to a wide range of conversational search experiences. Its engagement with users helps deliver more accurate results by asking for details and preferences. Additionally, it summarises the most pertinent findings and pulls data from varied sources.

You.com

You.com is one of the latest search engines allowing people to control their search, time and privacy. It combines user preferences with AI and natural language processing, allowing users to control their information consumption without being impacted by big ad tech companies. Moreover, it is also flexible, as developers can create apps to run within the result pages. Additionally, there is a three-dot menu at the bottom of the page that provides a host of various options, from turning on private mode to changing the region to modify the recency of search results.

Komo AI

Komo AI is an AI-based search engine prioritising speed, privacy and ad-less browsing experience. It predominantly offers three crucial features: Chat, Explore and Search. Chat permits users to explore idea generation and take part in topic discussions. Explore at the same time enables users to be informed about the trendy topics in the community. The search feature is remarkable due to its rapid and effective responses to queries, which offer relevant links and resources. Komo allows users to delve into their interests and find answers in an engaging, private and effective way.

Exa AI

This advanced search engine surpasses traditional keyword-based searches by comprehending the meaning of queries. Exa was previously called Metaphor. It allows large language models to search using natural language and receive a list of pertinent web pages from their neural database. Additionally, Exa AI is developed predominantly for AI applications that offer AI chat conversation services and an API for web search.

Ecosia

Ecosia is a green and ethical AI-powered search engine that contributes profits to planting trees. It gets improved by its algorithms and features. Since its launch in 2009, Ecosia has grown over 150 million trees in 26 countries. It contributes at least 80% of its profits from advertising revenue for tree planting projects worldwide.  

Moreover, it also utilises renewable energy sources to boost its servers and offset its carbon footprint. Ecosia leverages Bing’s technology, algorithms, and features to offer users pertinent and consistent results from various sources and formats. Ecosia does not track or store the user’s personal data or browsing history. It uses encryption and anonymisation to safeguard users’ data. 

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