Open Source Search Engines Without Generative AI

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  1. 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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  2. 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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
  3. LibreY icon
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    A fork of LibreX icon LibreX . Much like LibreX, LibreY gives you results from Google, Qwant, Ahmia and popular torrent sites without spying on you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
    • Self-Hosted
    Main Page
    Themes
    Frontends
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    Search Settings
  4. Stract icon
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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Stract screenshot 1
  5. LibreX icon
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    LibreX gives you results from Google, Qwant, Ahmia and popular torrent sites without spying on you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    LibreX screenshot 1
  6. 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
    Searx screenshot 1
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  7. SearXNG icon
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    SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Docker
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Cloudron
    SearXNG screenshot 1
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  8. 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
    YaCy screenshot 1
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bhamscot
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I want an AI-free browser, not for privacy reasons (although that's good too), but because I don't want to generate AI results every time I do a search. I know how to suppress them (in Google, for example) but the results are still generated, and then suppressed. This is an abhorrent waste of resources. Even when they're displayed I don't like them, so the use of resources to generate them is truly wasted on me. All the information I've found in the various places I've been (on the web) this morning have told me about browsers whose AI features can be turned off, but not how to prevent them from being used to generate the results in the first place. Sure, I like it that I can turn off a feature, but how do I know that it's not still pouring 10 bottles worth of perfectly good drinking water down the toilet every time I search for something? Any suggestions???

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