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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...

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

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Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

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

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Self-hosted search
  2.  No registration required
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  No Logs
  5.  No Tracking
  6.  Dark Mode
  7.  Decentralized
  8.  Block Trackers
  9.  Meta-Search

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Whoogle Search information

  • Developed by

    US flagBen Busby

  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5

  • Alternatives

    90 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Online Services, Security & Privacy

GitHub repository

  •  10,746 Stars
  •  1,006 Forks
  •  72 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 10, 2025 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Whoogle Search, and it has gotten 29 likes

Whoogle Search was added to AlternativeTo by Alexandar Mechev on Jul 13, 2020 and this page was last updated Jun 9, 2024. Whoogle Search is sometimes referred to as Whoogle.

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Top Positive Comment
Florian Wendelborn
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Sep 5, 2021
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It’s the best mix between DuckDuckGo’s !bang features and Google Search without privacy issues.

Alexandar Mechev
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Oct 5, 2020
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Lightweight, easy to deploy, fully featured

What is Whoogle Search?

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 desktop and mobile.

Features

No ads or sponsored content No JavaScript No cookies No tracking/linking of your personal IP address No AMP links No URL tracking tags (i.e. utm=%s) No referrer header Tor and HTTP/SOCKS proxy support Autocomplete/search suggestions POST request search and suggestion queries (when possible) View images at full res without site redirect (currently mobile only) Light/Dark/System theme modes (with support for custom CSS theming) Randomly generated User Agent Easy to install/deploy DDG-style bang (i.e. !<tag> <query>) searches Optional location-based searching (i.e. results near <city>) Optional NoJS mode to view search results in a separate window with JavaScript blocked

You can check the Public Instances at https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances

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