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  1. SearXNG icon
     127 likes

    SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Docker
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Cloudron
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    103 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good16 reviews
  2. Searx icon
     294 likes

    Searx is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, searx can be used over Tor for online anonymity.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    +2
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    100 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent18 reviews
  3. Stract icon
     34 likes

    Stract is an open source search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. It's a search engine made for hackers and tinkerers just like ourselves.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Stract screenshot 1
    67 alternatives
  4. YaCy icon
     143 likes

    YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    +6
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    90 alternatives
  5. MetaGer icon
     58 likes

    MetaGer is an open source metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy. Based in Germany, and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge' and the University of Hannover, the system is built on 24...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
    Homepage. With dark mode.
    Setting for web. With dark mode.
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    +3
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    89 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good11 reviews
  6. ueli icon
     72 likes

    Developed with the Electron framework, ueli is the type of tool that adopts simplicity, leaving out any unnecessary options and configuration settings. It creates an icon in the system tray at startup, where it sits silently throughout its runtime, without disturbing you with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    ueli screenshot 1
    Calculator
    Web Search
    +4
    Custom Web Search
    84 alternatives
  7. Morphic icon
     17 likes

    Morphic it's a fully open-source AI-powered answer engine with a generative UI. Built with Vercel AI SDK, it delivers awesome streaming results.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
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    +1
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    24 alternatives
  8. 4get icon
     22 likes

    This is a metasearch engine that gets results from other engines, and strips away all of the tracking parameters and Microsoft bullshit they add. Most of the other alternatives to Google jack themselves off about being ""privacy respecting"" or whatever the...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
    Search settings retrieved from main instance.
    Instance list retrieved from main instance.
    Homepage of main instance.
    65 alternatives
    3.8
    Good11 reviews
  9. Whoogle Search icon
     33 likes

    Get Google search results, but without any ads, javascript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file. Quick and simple to implement as a primary search engine replacement on both...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
    91 alternatives
  10. This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Marginalia Search screenshot 1
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    47 alternatives
  11. Wiby icon
     11 likes

    In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    62 alternatives
  12. Mwmbl Search icon
     13 likes

    Mwmbl is a non-profit, ad-free, free-libre and free-lunch search engine with a focus on useability and speed. At the moment it is little more than an idea together with a proof of concept implementation of the web front-end and search technology on a small index.

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Main Page
    Search Result For "Mastodon"
    72 alternatives
  13. Araa icon
     6 likes

    A privacy-respecting, ad-free, self-hosted Google metasearch engine with strong security that offers full API support and utilizes Qwant for images, and DuckDuckGo for auto-complete.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • NGINX
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    +5
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    63 alternatives
  14. "Pássaro is a metasearch engine that serves as a universal search box for 35+ search engines and websites, not needing to visit each specific website, instead, just typing its name and be redirected to this website with the search you made in Pássaro's search...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    Documentation page
    Search page
    Main page
    21 alternatives
  15. Search for a Cause is a search engine that allows you to raise money for charity each time you search. We raise money through a small number of ads included with the search results. The revenue earned from those ads is pooled together and then donated to our partner charities...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    53 alternatives
  16. LLocalSearch icon
     1 like

    This is a completely locally running search engine using LLM Agents. The user can ask a question and the system will use a chain of LLMs to find the answer. The user can see the progress of the agents and the final answer. No OpenAI or Google API keys are needed.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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    4 alternatives
  17. YubNub icon
     7 likes

    YubNub is a networking web service with a command line–style interface. It allows users to create and use commands which are mapped to webpages and web services.FeaturesCommands can be created for most websites and services.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    2 alternatives
  18. Big Search icon
     2 likes

    Collect search engines or websites then use / switch them on one UI (any website that supports GET/POST request. Even works with those don't support GET/POST). User cutomizable, with special technical features.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Vivaldi Browser
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Brave
    • Chromium
    • Firefox
    Browser Addon
    Web app
    Big Search screenshot 2
    +3
    Context menu to search for selection
    9 alternatives