Whoogle Search
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
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.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Decentralized
- Customizable
- No AI
- Support for Themes
Features
- Self-hosted search
- No Tracking
- No Logs
- Dark Mode
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- Block Trackers
- Meta-Search
Whoogle Search News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
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Whoogle Search information
Developed by
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Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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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
Comments and Reviews
It’s the best mix between DuckDuckGo’s !bang features and Google Search without privacy issues.
Lightweight, easy to deploy, fully featured