A List Of Privacy Focused Search Engines

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Oscar SandersonList by Oscar Sanderson, last updated 
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  1. Searx icon
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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  2. YaCy icon
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    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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  3. Privacy-focused search engine offering Zero-click Info, instant answers, and more, built from open-source software for a user-friendly experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • F-Droid
    • Yandex Browser
    • Tor
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
    DuckDuckGo Homepage
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  4. MetaGer icon
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    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

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
    Homepage. With dark mode.
    Setting for web. With dark mode.
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  5. Swisscows icon
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    Privacy-focused search engine offering web and image search with no data tracking, no personalized profiling, encrypted access, and family-friendly filtered results.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  6. Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
    • Brave
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  7. Founded in 1996 as the first ever German search engine, Fireball is a search engine from Munich, Germany which is operated by Fireball Labs GmbH. Fireball mainly relys on Bing results these days and Fireball is privacy-focused.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    Fireball homepage
    Example search on Fireball
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    Ecosia is a green search engine that donates at least 80% of its profits from search ad revenue and online shopping to a reforestation program, currently in Burkina Faso. In November 2015 Ecosia celebrated 3 million planted trees and $5 Million donated for the environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  9. Qwant icon
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    Qwant is a European web search engine, launched in July 2013 and operated from Paris. It uses Bing in order to provide people with web search results. It claims not to employ user tracking and doesn't personalize search results in order to avoid trapping users in a filter...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
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