It’s like the 90s again, when we had lots of different search engines to choose from – such as Altavista, Yahoo, Jeeves etc – before Google came along and ate their lunch.
Now, in mid-2020s we have something similar – but different – with a diverse range of AI search engines being released.
These are a mixture of AI search assistants, AI-powered search engines and existing search engines which have been boosted up with AI powers.
Andi – your smart AI Search Assistant
ChatGPT search – Get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources
Komo AI Search – a cutting-edge AI-powered search engine (I asked it to describe itself)
Perplexity – Perplexity is an innovative AI-powered search engine that revolutionizes the way people access and process information online (I asked it to describe itself)
Brave Search – Search the web privately
Phind – an AI-powered search engine designed specifically for developers and professionals
You.com – an advanced search engine that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the search experience
Thanks to SearchEngineJournal for the info on some of the above.
And of course, there’s then the existing big players – Google and Bing – but neither of them seem ready/easily available at the moment (Jan 2025)
Google – Google is now featuring Google Search Overviews – although currently (Jan 2025) only in the US in English
Bing – Microsoft’s search engine is now the new Bing – the AI-powered assistant for your search. Though according to the site the instructions are ‘To try Bing Chat, sign into Microsoft Edge and select the Bing chat icon in the browser toolbar. Feature availability and functionality may vary by device type, market, and browser version.’ I opened Edge browser and Bing Chat takes you to https://copilot.microsoft.com/chats/ so it’s hardly a smooth ride to try it out.
Other AI Search Engines that you have to go through hoops to use include Grok – to access this, you have to sign in to X.
And then there’s the AI agent platforms such as Copilot, ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which directly answer your questions, so not a traditional search engine, but usually providing links to their sources.
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