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
- 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.com
Wikidata: search engine by Google LLC
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- 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; 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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Google, thumbs down if it isn’t.
2 of the 60 sites closest to Google match.
- 01
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Very close - 02
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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 and search numbers · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,197
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 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
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