Which search engines are best for research?
Search EnginesNamed in 6 of 6 answers
#1
100.0
Rank by surface
Claude#1
Gemini#1
Google AI Mode#1
Google AI Overviews#1
ChatGPT#1
Microsoft Copilot#1
Brand profile
A freely accessible web search engine launched in 2004 by Google, specializing in scholarly literature across a wide array of publishing formats and disciplines.
4 questions · 3 categories · As of Nov 12, 2026
| Categories | Category rank | Questions | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search Engines | #7of 76 | 2 | 103.8 |
| Databases | #55of 170 | 1 | 25.2 |
| AI Writing Tools | #119of 121 | 1 | 3.6 |
Brands named in the same answers as Google Scholar in the last four weeks, counted in answers.
| Brand | Answers naming the brand | Named alongside |
|---|---|---|
| Brave Search | 23 | Kagi (17), DuckDuckGo (17), StartPage (16) |
| DuckDuckGo | 19 | Brave Search (17), StartPage (16), Kagi (14) |
| Perplexity | 13 | Brave Search (11), ChatGPT Search (10), Kagi (7) |
| Google Search | 7 | Brave Search (6), Perplexity (5), Bing (5) |
| StartPage | 16 | DuckDuckGo (16), Brave Search (16), Kagi (13) |
| ChatGPT Search | 11 | Perplexity (10), Brave Search (10), Kagi (7) |
| Google Scholar | 8 | Semantic Scholar (6), PubMed (5), BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) (5) |
| Kagi | 17 | Brave Search (17), DuckDuckGo (14), StartPage (13) |
| Bing | 10 | DuckDuckGo (7), Brave Search (7), Kagi (6) |
| Consensus | 9 | Perplexity (7), Brave Search (6), ChatGPT Search (6) |
| Semantic Scholar | 6 | Google Scholar (6), PubMed (5), BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) (5) |
| Google SafeSearch | 5 | Kiddle (4), KidzSearch (3), Safe Search Kids (3) |
| Kiddle | 5 | KidzSearch (4), Kidtopia (4), Google SafeSearch (4) |
| SearXNG | 8 | DuckDuckGo (8), StartPage (8), Brave Search (8) |
| BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) | 5 | Google Scholar (5), Semantic Scholar (5), PubMed (4) |
| PubMed | 5 | Google Scholar (5), Semantic Scholar (5), BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) (4) |
| Mojeek | 8 | DuckDuckGo (8), StartPage (8), Brave Search (8) |
| 6 | DuckDuckGo (4), Bing (4), Ecosia (3) | |
| Safe Search Kids | 4 | Fact Monster (4), KidzSearch (3), Kidtopia (3) |
| IEEE Xplore | 4 | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) (4), Google Scholar (4), Semantic Scholar (4) |
| Fact Monster | 4 | Safe Search Kids (4), KidzSearch (3), Kidtopia (3) |
| KidzSearch | 4 | Kidtopia (4), Kiddle (4), Safe Search Kids (3) |
| Phind | 4 | ChatGPT Search (4), Consensus (3), Perplexity (3) |
| Microsoft Copilot | 5 | Perplexity (5), Brave Search (5), ChatGPT Search (5) |
| JSTOR | 4 | PubMed (4), Google Scholar (4), Semantic Scholar (4) |
| Internet Archive | 3 | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) (3), Google Scholar (3), Semantic Scholar (3) |
| Ecosia | 6 | DuckDuckGo (6), StartPage (6), Brave Search (6) |
| Kidtopia | 4 | KidzSearch (4), Kiddle (4), Safe Search Kids (3) |
| KidzTube | 2 | Safe Search Kids (2), Fact Monster (2), Google SafeSearch (2) |
| CORE | 3 | PubMed (3), IEEE Xplore (3), BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) (3) |
Sites the answers naming this brand cited in the last four weeks. Counts are citing answers.
| Rank | Source | Citing answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | paperpile.com | 3 |
| 2 | consensus.app | 2 |
| 3 | paperguide.ai | 2 |
| 4 | scite.ai | 2 |
| 5 | zapier.com | 2 |
| 6 | exa.ai | 2 |
| 7 | pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | 2 |
| 8 | scholar.google.com | 2 |
| 9 | about.jstor.org | 1 |
| 10 | aiunpacker.com | 1 |
For the brand's best questions: of each surface's 1 answers, how many named it.
| Questions | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Which search engines are best for research? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2What are the most trusted databases? | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3Which search engines are best for kids? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4What are the best AI tools for academic writing? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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