Ask Alternatives

Ask is described as 'Com (or Ask Jeeves in the United Kingdom) is a search engine that allows users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language, along with traditional keyword searching. Ask.com also includes support for math, dictionary, and conversion questions' and is a web search engine in the online services category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ask, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, iPad and Android Tablet apps. The best Ask alternative is DuckDuckGo, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Ask are Startpage, SearXNG, Brave Search and Google Search.

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  1. 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...

    88 YaCy alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. YOU.com icon
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    Discover You.com — your platform to access all the leading AI models in one place, tailored to your preferences. Here’s why you’ll love it:

    89 YOU.com alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  3. MetaGer icon
     57 likes
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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...

    87 MetaGer alternatives

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    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
     
  4. Yandex.Search icon
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    Yandex is the fastest growing search engine in the world, serving primarily Russian users. It has been experimenting with an English-based search engine, but its main operations are for its Cyrillic engine.

    97 Yandex.Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Telegram
    • iPad
     
  5. 4get icon
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    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...

    63 4get alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
     
  6. Whoogle Search icon
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    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...

    89 Whoogle Search alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Mwmbl Search icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  8. Andi icon
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    Andi is search for the next generation using generative AI. Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers - like talking with a smart friend.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. 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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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