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Whoogle Search

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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.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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  • Discontinued

Platforms

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

As mentioned in the README, v.1.2.4 (released April 14, 2026) will be the last release due to non-JavaScript search queries being aggressively blocked with no workarounds found.

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  •  1,051 Forks
  •  1 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Whoogle Search, and it has gotten 36 likes

Whoogle Search was added to AlternativeTo by Alexandar Mechev on and this page was last updated . Whoogle Search is sometimes referred to as Whoogle. 

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

Alexandar Mechev
0

Lightweight, easy to deploy, fully featured

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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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