YaCy Alternatives

YaCy is described as 'Free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of' and is a very popular web search engine in the security & privacy category. There are more than 50 alternatives to YaCy for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, Mozilla Firefox and iPad apps. The best YaCy alternative is DuckDuckGo, which is free. Other great apps like YaCy are Startpage, Google Search, SearXNG and Brave Search.

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  1. Alexandria.org is a non-profit, ad-free search engine. Our goal is to provide the best available information without compromise.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  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.

    83 Dogpile alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. monocles is a project founded to move to a more secure, ecofriendly, privacy respecting, fair and open source technical and digital life for everyone. monocles search is one of the most privacy-respecting, secure and ethical public search engine due to the highly modified open...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. PrivacyWall icon
     1 like

    Search the internet with the PrivacyWall app and enable tracking protection to block third-party tracking as you search and browse the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
     
  7. GOOD icon
     1 like

    The search engine for a better world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  8. Private.sh icon
     2 likes

    Every single search request from our website and extension is encrypted locally on the client and proxied through our service, stripping away your public IP address ensuring that only the search provider is able to decrypt and see your query without any knowledge of who you are.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. findx icon
     6 likes

    Your new search engine. No logging. No tracking. Transparent algorithms. Hosted in Europe. Users like you help shape the results.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  10. YEP Search icon
     1 like

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Sosse icon
     1 like

    SOSSE (Selenium Open Source Search Engine) is a search engine and crawler written in Python, distributed under the GNU-AGPLv3 license. It is hosted on both Gitlab and Github site, please use any of them to open feature requests, bug report or merge requests, or open a discussion.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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