Top Search Engines of 2012

1. Google: Google is the king of searching. Google is fast, show most relevant results, and the largest single catalogue of Web pages.

Alexa Traffic Rank: 1
Compete Rank: 1
Quantcast Rank: 1
Traffic Rank in US: 1
Sites Linking In: 5,050,845
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 900,000,000

2. Bing: Bing is Microsoft’s search engines. Bing used to be MSN search but it was updated in 2009.
Alexa Traffic Rank: 30
Compete Rank: 5
Quantcast Rank: 13
Traffic Rank in US: 15
Sites Linking In: 187,132
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 165,000,000

3. Yahoo!: Yahoo was founded in 1994 and Yahoo as a search engine was started in 2002. Then Yahoo became one among the best and top favorite search engine globally.

Alexa Traffic Rank: 4

Compete Rank: 3

Quantcast Rank: 5

Traffic Rank in US: 4

Sites Linking In: 2,024,282

Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors-160,000,000

4. Ask: History of Ask begins when it was founded by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in California in 1996. Ask.com was initially a platform for web searches asked/searched in the format of questions and answers, but in 2010 Ask declared that it would be outsourcing its search indexing and crawling to Google, Bing and the other best search engines in the category. Its also a popular search engines.
Alexa Traffic Rank: 4
Compete Rank: 10
Quantcast Rank: 14
Traffic Rank in US: 4
Sites Linking In: 2,024,282
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors-160,000,000

5. Aol Search: AOL is also an popular search engine used by many user in the world of internet.

Alexa Traffic Rank: 69
Compete Rank: N/A
Quantcast Rank: N/A
Traffic Rank in US: 19
Sites Linking In: 215,554
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors-33,000,000

6. MyWebSearch:
Alexa Traffic Rank: 126
Compete Rank: 65
Quantcast Rank: 409
Traffic Rank in US: 65
Sites Linking In: 3902
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors-19,000,000

7. Lycos:
Alexa Traffic Rank: 1917
Compete Rank: 837
Quantcast Rank: 347
Traffic Rank in US: 1600
Sites Linking In: 45445
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors-4,300,000

8. Dogpile:
Alexa Traffic Rank: 3677
Compete Rank: 587
Quantcast Rank: 882
Traffic Rank in US: 1008
Sites Linking In: 14633
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors-2,900,000

9. WebCrawler:
Alexa Traffic Rank: 6800
Compete Rank: 128
Quantcast Rank: 1281
Traffic Rank in US: 1298
Sites Linking In: 13783
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 2,700,000

10. Info:
Alexa Traffic Rank: 3230
Compete Rank: 371
Quantcast Rank: 286
Traffic Rank in US: 891
Sites Linking In: 2856
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 2,600,000
Others Popular search Engine:

11. Webopedia

12. Dogpile

13. Duck Duck Go

14. The Internet Archive

15. Yippy

16. Mahalo

17. Infospace

18. Search

19. Excite

20. GoodSearch

21. AltaVista

22. GigaBlast

23. Srub The Web

24. Blekko

25. Teoma

Note: The rankings may be changed in future, it is the current rankings while writing the post.