google.co.za
Who runs Google, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web search engine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Part of google.com
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Yandex
Measured from Google’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Google01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Google
Google google.co.za
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Part of
- google.com Runs this domain’s DNS
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In German
02 · Privacy
What Google 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
None of the 16 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Google’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Google
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Google, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Google match.
- 01
Yandex — fast Internet search
Yandex finds anything: webpages, images, music, good. Solve any problem — from everyday to a scientific one. Search by text, voice or image.
Very close - 02
Search - Microsoft Bing
Search with Microsoft Bing and use the power of AI to find information, explore webpages, images, videos, maps, and more. A smart search engine for the forever curious.
Very close - 03
Яндекс — быстрый поиск в интернете
Яндекс, найдётся всё: сайты, изображения, музыка, товары. Решайте любые задачи — от повседневных вопросов до научной работы. Можно искать текстом, голосом или по картинке.
Very close - 04
DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Very close - 06
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 07
Opera Web Browser | Faster, Safer, Smarter | Opera
Faster, safer and smarter than default browsers. Fully-featured for privacy, security, and so much more. Get the faster, better Opera browser for free.
Very close - 08
Mojeek
Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.
Very close - 09
Grok
Grok is an AI assistant built by SpaceXSI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.
Very close - 10
MSN
collection of Internet sites by Microsoft
Very close - 11
Game South Africa | Unbeatable Deals
discount general merchandise store chain in Southern Africa
Very close - 12
The Swiss Search Engine - search.ch
The Swiss search engine: Phone Directory, Weather, Map, Route, Timetable, TV Guide, Cinema, Snow report, Web Search
Very close - 13
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Very close - 14
Unsupported client
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Very close - 15
IONOS UK » Websites. Domains. Cloud.
IONOS » Your digital partner for websites, domains and cloud. We are a leading UK web host and a specialist in cloud solutions.
Very close - 16
Moz - SEO Software for Smarter Marketing
Backed by the largest community of SEOs on the planet, Moz builds the tools that make SEO, content marketing, market research, digital PR, and local SEO easy. Start your free trial today!
Very close - 17
The Global Commerce Intelligence Platform
Make every shopping moment smarter with ads powered by commerce AI fueled by the world’s largest set of commerce data
Very close - 18
Nullschool Technologies Inc.
Very close - 19
Seznam – najdu tam, co neznám
Nejnavštěvovanější český internetový portál nabízející vyhledávač, e-mail, aktuální zprávy, předpověď počasí a odkazy, které se mohou hodit.
Very close - 20
Home: TEDi
German multinational variety store chain
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Google’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Google uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Google 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 · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,201
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 79 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Google’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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Web servers
- Google Web Server header server: gws
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on google.co.za 15/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on google.co.za 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on google.co.za 9/20
- GlobalSign · not on google.co.za 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on google.co.za 7/20
- Google Workspace 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on google.co.za 5/20
- React · not on google.co.za 4/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on google.co.za 3/20
- NS1 · not on google.co.za 3/20
- Apple Business · not on google.co.za 3/20
- Atlassian · not on google.co.za 3/20
- OpenAI · not on google.co.za 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on google.co.za 3/20
- Slack · not on google.co.za 3/20
- Next.js · not on google.co.za 3/20