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Encyclopedia.com

Who runs Encyclopedia.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online encyclopedia alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Encyclopedia.com

Encyclopedia.com encyclopedia.com

Encyclopedia.com – Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.

Wikidata: online encyclopedia website

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Encyclopedia.com tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

8 of the 12 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found
US company
3 tools
  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Encyclopedia.com

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Fewer trackers than Encyclopedia.comNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Encyclopædia Britannica Online britannica.com Top 1K English

    online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica

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  2. 02
    Infoplease infoplease.com

    reference website

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  3. 03
    Wikipedia wikipedia.org Top 100 English No trackers

    Wikipedia

    Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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  4. 04
    The Free Dictionary thefreedictionary.com Top 10K 2 trackers

    Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary

    The World's most comprehensive free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia with synonyms, definitions, idioms, abbreviations, and medical, financial, legal specialized dictionaries

    Compare The Free Dictionary with Encyclopedia.com →
  5. 05
    Scholarpedia Journal scholarpedia.org No trackers

    peer-reviewed open-access journal

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  6. 06
    Know Your Meme knowyourmeme.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme

    Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.

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  7. 07
    Wiktionary wiktionary.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Wiktionary

    free online multilingual dictionary

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  8. 08
    dictionary.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    Meanings & Definitions of English Words | Dictionary.com

    The world's leading online dictionary: English definitions, synonyms, word origins, example sentences, word games, and more. A trusted authority for 25+ years!

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  9. 09
    Collins English Dictionary collinsdictionary.com

    printed and online English dictionary

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  10. 10
    Namuwiki namu.wiki Top 10K English

    Paraguay-based Korean wiki website

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  11. 11
    Merriam-Webster online dictionary merriam-webster.com Top 1K English

    online English dictionary hosted on merriam-webster.com

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  12. 12

    free online platform for language lovers and an online community

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  13. 13
    Glosbe glosbe.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Glosbe Dictionary - All Languages of the World in One Place

    Glosbe dictionary - one place, all languages! Translations, example sentences, pronunciation recordings and grammar references. Check it out!

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  14. 14
    Oxford Learner's Dictionaries oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com English 3 trackers

    Oxford Learner's Dictionaries | Find definitions, translations, and grammar explanations at Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

    The largest and most trusted free online dictionary for learners of British and American English with definitions, pictures, example sentences, synonyms, antonyms, word origins, audio pronunciation, and more. Look up the meanings of words, abbreviations, phrases, and idioms in our free English Dictionary.

    Compare Oxford Learner's Dictionaries with Encyclopedia.com →
  15. 15
    A-Z Quotes azquotes.com 1 tracker

    A-Z Quotes | Quotes for All Occasions

    Discover inspirational quotes, collect and share famous and rare quotes. Create beautiful and unique picture quotes in one click. Sayings from famous authors, movies and people.

    Compare A-Z Quotes with Encyclopedia.com →
  16. 16
    AllMusic allmusic.com

    American online music database

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  17. 17
    Urban Dictionary urbandictionary.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    Urban Dictionary, November 6: Yap Trap

    A seemingly endless debate with a idiot

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  18. 18
    BrainyQuote brainyquote.com

    online quotations database

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  19. 19
    dict.cc No trackers

    dict.cc | German-English dictionary

    dict.cc German-English dictionary - English-German translations.

    Compare dict.cc with Encyclopedia.com →
  20. 20
    Wikimapia wikimapia.org No trackers

    Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole world!

    Wikimapia is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf the map discovering tonns of already marked places.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Encyclopedia.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Encyclopedia.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Encyclopedia.com adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 11 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
36 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Encyclopedia.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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