The Best Open Source DuckDuckGo AlternativesTop Web Search & Image Search Engines like DuckDuckGo

The best open source alternative to DuckDuckGo is Searx. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to DuckDuckGo and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to DuckDuckGo are SearXNG, YaCy, MetaGer and Stract.

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  1. Searx icon

    Searx

     298 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.

    102 Searx alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    Searx vs DuckDuckGo Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    Buster_Blue
    3

    Both are search engines that focus on privacy. Searx is a metasearch engine, however.

    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
    0

    It requires too much work in order to see if it is even similar.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Oscar Sanderson
    Positive
    -1

    Is more privacy focused and you can configue it easierly

    3 of 5 comments
    • Searx is Free and Open SourceDuckDuckGo is Free and Proprietary
  2. SearXNG icon

    SearXNG

     131 likes

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

    105 SearXNG alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Docker
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Cloudron
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    SearXNG vs DuckDuckGo Comments
    youlk1234
    0

    Cool, but you need your own server to set it up, which costs money...

    • SearXNG is Free and Open SourceDuckDuckGo is Free and Proprietary
  4. YaCy icon

    YaCy

     146 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...

    91 YaCy alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    YaCy vs DuckDuckGo Comments
    HonestJohn
    Positive
    7

    I use almost excusively DuckDuckGo nowadays but YaCy is my ideal. Fully open source, fully decentralized search engine. Unfurtunatelly is still is kind of beta-alpha product, however if you desire true alternative to the "do(n't) be evil" serach engine, you should keep an eye on it.

    Guest
    Negative
    0

    I don't want to install something...

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • YaCy is Free and Open SourceDuckDuckGo is Free and Proprietary
  5. MetaGer icon

    MetaGer

     59 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...

    90 MetaGer alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
    Homepage. With dark mode.
     
  6. Stract icon

    Stract

     36 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.

    68 Stract alternatives

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    • Online
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    Stract vs DuckDuckGo Comments
    youlk1234
    Positive
    0

    Useful, i switched to it recently. To me, the most useful features are the bangs. !w for example brings you directlly to Wikipedia

    • Stract is Free and Open SourceDuckDuckGo is Free and Proprietary
  7. Whoogle Search icon

    Whoogle Search

     34 likes

    Ad-free, privacy-focused meta-search providing Google results without tracking, JavaScript, cookies, or AMP links, supporting proxies and autocomplete. Customizable, Docker-deployable, mobile-ready, with theme options and additional privacy features.

    91 Whoogle Search alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
     
  9. Mwmbl Search icon

    Mwmbl Search

     15 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.

    72 Mwmbl Search alternatives

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    • Online
    Main Page
     
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    Mwmbl Search vs DuckDuckGo Comments
    youlk1234
    Positive
    1

    It doesn't just crawl the whole web, just the sites YOU ASK...

    • Mwmbl Search is Free and Open SourceDuckDuckGo is Free and Proprietary
  10. 4get icon

    4get

     21 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...

    66 4get alternatives

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    • Online
    • Tor
    Search settings retrieved from main instance.
     
  11. Marginalia Search icon

    Marginalia Search

     15 likes

    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.

    49 Marginalia Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    Marginalia Search screenshot 1
     
  12. Wiby icon

    Wiby

     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.

    63 Wiby alternatives

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    • Online
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  14. Onion Search Engine icon

    Onion Search Engine

     9 likes

    Free anonymous search engine for the Tor network and dark web. No cookies, no JavaScript, no logs. Indexes .onion hidden services with a Threat Intelligence API for security professionals.

    66 Onion Search Engine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Onion Search Engine screenshot 1
     
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