Lycos Alternatives

Lycos is described as 'Search engine which originally started as a research project at Carnegie Mellon University and officially launched in 1995' and is a web search engine in the online services category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Lycos, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, iPad and Android Tablet apps. The best Lycos alternative is DuckDuckGo, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Lycos are Startpage, SearXNG, Brave Search and Google Search.

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    Tempest is an independent company on a mission to help everyone take back control of their digital lives. We make products that prioritize the needs of individuals, not the needs of companies looking to profit from your personal information.

    62 Tempest Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Surfshark Search is a web service that provides private, ad-free browsing. It's part of Surfshark One and prevents tracking and targeted ads, ensuring your searches remain private.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  3. Yahoo! Search icon
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    The search engine that helps you find exactly what youre looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web. Yahoo! Search is a web search engine, owned by Yahoo! Inc.

    91 Yahoo! Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  4. Dogpile icon
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    Metasearch engine integrating web, image, and video listings from leading sources, filtering duplicates, supporting privacy, custom filters, and real-time results for comprehensive searching across devices and offering advanced refinements.

    84 Dogpile alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  6. YEP Search icon
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    The search engine that shares ad profit with creators and protects your privacy. Made by Ahrefs, designed for privacy, profit sharing and avoiding thin content

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  7. MillionShort icon
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    Million Short is an experimental web search engine (really, more of a discovery engine) that allows you to REMOVE the top million (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100) sites from the results set. We thought it might be somewhat interesting to see what we'd find if we just removed an...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
     
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