MetaCrawler Alternatives

MetaCrawler is described as 'It was originally a metasearch engine, as its name suggests. Throughout its lifetime it combined web search results from sources including Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly Live Search), Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other search engine programs' and is a web search engine in the online services category. There are more than 25 alternatives to MetaCrawler, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, iPad and Android Tablet apps. The best MetaCrawler alternative is DuckDuckGo, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to MetaCrawler are Startpage, SearXNG, Brave Search and Google Search.

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  1. MetaGer icon
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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...

    89 MetaGer alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
     
  2. You.com icon
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    You.com is an AI-powered productivity platform designed to help individuals and teams streamline their work with intelligent tools. It integrates research, computation, and creative capabilities, allowing users to analyze complex topics, solve data challenges, and generate...

    90 You.com alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  3. 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.

    96 Yandex.Search alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
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    • Android Tablet
    • Telegram
    • iPad
     
  4. Whoogle Search icon
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    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.

    90 Whoogle Search alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  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...

    64 4get alternatives

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    • Online
    • Tor
     
  6. Arc Search icon
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    Arc Search is a modern, AI-powered mobile browser. Features include a quick keyboard pop-up for searches, ad and tracker blocking, webpage summaries with the Browse for Me feature, auto-archive for inactive tabs, and a distraction-free Reader mode.

    65 Arc Search alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  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.

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    • Online
     
  8. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  9. Wiby icon
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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.

    61 Wiby alternatives

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