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

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

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  1. SearXNG icon

    SearXNG

     156 likes

    Metasearch engine aggregating results from up to 251 services, offering strong privacy, no tracking, encrypted connections, Tor access, script and cookie flexibility, customizable engines, support for 58 languages, and user-selectable light or dark themes.

    107 SearXNG alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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    Third Opinion
    Positive
    0

    Works without javascript. One just have to find a good instance and tune it a bit. All instances have occasional outages but then you can blame google (again!)...

    AbyssalThatRatesAppsTho
    Positive
    0

    SearXNG is a Meta Search Engine that you can configure to run locally, it's free and open source! Highly configurable, as there are so many instances of it that can be used ready made (Garuda Linux has one they offer). Using Podman Desktop or Docker, you can do it yourself fairly easily, the instructions are out there for that very purpose. You can even access Tor through SearXNG for added privacy.

    • SearXNG is Free and Open SourceGoogle Search is Free and Proprietary
    • SearXNG is Decentralized, Privacy focused and LightweightGoogle Search is not according to our users
  2. YaCy icon

    YaCy

     149 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    paulodelgado
    Negative
    3

    Doesn't work out of the box.

    • YaCy is Free and Open SourceGoogle Search is Free and Proprietary
    • YaCy is Decentralized, Privacy focused and LightweightGoogle Search is not according to our users
  4. MetaGer icon

    MetaGer

     60 likes

    Open source metasearch engine blending results from several sources, offering private, uncensored web search, transparent algorithms, no user tracking, and nonprofit operation, with public code, energy-efficient hosting, and an optional dark theme interface.

    87 MetaGer alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
    Homepage. With dark mode.
     
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    roseygarlins
    Negative
    0

    Unfortunately you need to sign in / use a token to search. I think their SERP provider rug pulled them or something.

    Adder
    Positive
    0

    As per there policy. Only cookies that would be used are those for any setting changes user makes (language, family setting's, etc.) Being Germany based can refuse authority info request but why. MetGer has no data to give you anyway. ??

    • MetaGer is Paid and Open SourceGoogle Search is Free and Proprietary
    • MetaGer is Privacy focused and CustomizableGoogle Search is not according to our users
  5. Whoogle Search icon

    Whoogle Search

     36 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.

    88 Whoogle Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    Marginalia Search

     20 likes

    Open source search solution crawling the web to prioritize small and non-commercial sites, supporting unique discovery of personal content, white-label deployment, cost-effective hardware, side-loaded indexing, and ongoing improvements for configurability.

    52 Marginalia Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  8. 4get icon

    4get

     23 likes

    This is a metasearch engine that gets results from other engines, and strips away all of the tracking parameters and Microsoft/globohomo bullshit they add. Most of the other alternatives to Google jack themselves off about being ""privacy respecting"" or...

    66 4get alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
    Search settings retrieved from main instance.
     
  9. searxist icon

    searxist

     8 likes

    A simple Android app to wrap SearXNG with Material You colors, plus some system integrations.

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
    The list of instances to use upon first launch.
     
  10. Mwmbl Search icon

    Mwmbl Search

     17 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.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    Main Page
     
  11. Wiby icon

    Wiby

     12 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  12. Spot Search Engine icon

    Spot Search Engine

     10 likes

    Spot is a fork of Searx which is a metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  14. Araa icon

    Araa

     5 likes

    A privacy-respecting, ad-free, self-hosted Google metasearch engine with strong security that offers full API support and utilizes Qwant for images, and DuckDuckGo for auto-complete.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • NGINX
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