google.com
Who runs Google, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web search engine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- 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.com
Wikidata: search engine by Google LLC
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- First copy 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; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Google’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Google
None of the 60 sites closest to Google match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
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 and search numbers · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,208
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 48 ms
Built with
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=6d685f1d41a94696ad7ef771f68993e0
- Web servers
- Google Web Server header server: gws
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=30afIBcvSuDV2PLX
- DocuSign TXT docusign=1b0a6754-49b1-4db5-8540-d2c12664b289
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=wD8N7i1JTNTkezJ49swvWW48f8_9xveREV4oB-0Hf5o
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=22rm551cu4k0ab0bxsw536tlds4h95
Sitemaps
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Google Workspace 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on google.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on google.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite 5/20
- OpenAI · not on google.com 4/20
- Slack · not on google.com 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on google.com 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on google.com 4/20
- DocuSign 4/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on google.com 3/20
- Yandex Mail · not on google.com 3/20
- Yandex Metrica · not on google.com 3/20
- NS1 · not on google.com 3/20
- Stripe · not on google.com 3/20