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

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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.

    98 Searx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • Online
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    Comments about Searx as an Alternative to DuckDuckGo
    Top Positive Comment
    Buster_Blue
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    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

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    • Almost everyone thinks Searx is a great DuckDuckGo alternative.

    • Searx is the most popular Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to DuckDuckGo.

    • Searx is the most popular Open Source alternative to DuckDuckGo.

    • Searx is Free and Open SourceDuckDuckGo is Free and Proprietary
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    SearXNG

     123 likes
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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.

    103 SearXNG alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Docker
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Cloudron
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    Comments about SearXNG as an Alternative to DuckDuckGo
    youlk1234
    0

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

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    • Almost everyone thinks SearXNG is a great DuckDuckGo alternative.

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

    YaCy

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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
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    • Mac
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    • Online
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    Comments about YaCy as an Alternative to DuckDuckGo
    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.

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    I don't want to install something...

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks YaCy is a great DuckDuckGo alternative.

    • YaCy is the most popular Windows alternative to DuckDuckGo.

    • YaCy is Free and Open SourceDuckDuckGo is Free and Proprietary
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    MetaGer

     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...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
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    • Online
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    • F-Droid
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    Homepage. With dark mode.
     
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    Stract

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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.

    65 Stract alternatives

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    • Free
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    • Online
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    Comments about Stract as an Alternative to DuckDuckGo
    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

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

    Whoogle Search

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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
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  9. 4get icon

    4get

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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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Tor
    Search settings retrieved from main instance.
     
  10. Mwmbl Search icon

    Mwmbl Search

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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.

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    • Free
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    • Online
    Main Page
     
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    Comments about Mwmbl Search as an Alternative to DuckDuckGo
    youlk1234
    Positive
    1

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

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    • Mwmbl Search is Free and Open SourceDuckDuckGo is Free and Proprietary
  11. Marginalia Search icon

    Marginalia Search

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    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.

    45 Marginalia Search alternatives

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    • Free
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    • Online
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    LibreX

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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

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  13. Wiby icon

    Wiby

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    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.

    60 Wiby alternatives

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    • Free
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