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  1. DuckDuckGo icon
     1556 likes

    Privacy-focused search engine offering Zero-click Info, instant answers, and more, built from open-source software for a user-friendly experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • F-Droid
    • Yandex Browser
    • Tor
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
    DuckDuckGo Homepage
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    +16
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    111 alternatives
    4.0
    Very Good83 reviews
  2. Startpage icon
     278 likes

    Privacy-focused search engine using Google results without trackers, storing no personal data, and offering Anonymous View for private browsing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Tor
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Dark theme
    Light theme
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    104 alternatives
    3.5
    Good22 reviews
  3. SearXNG icon
     127 likes

    SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Docker
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Cloudron
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    103 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good16 reviews
  4. Searx icon
     294 likes

    Searx is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, searx can be used over Tor for online anonymity.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    +2
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    100 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent18 reviews
  5. Qwant icon
     176 likes

    Qwant is a European web search engine, launched in July 2013 and operated from Paris. It uses Bing in order to provide people with web search results. It claims not to employ user tracking and doesn't personalize search results in order to avoid trapping users in a filter...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    Qwant screenshot 1
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    +5
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    107 alternatives
    3.7
    Good14 reviews
  6. Ecosia icon
     150 likes

    Search engine donating over 80% of profits to global reforestation, supporting millions of trees planted, funded by ad revenue, with mobile and web access.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Ecosia screenshot 1
    Ecosia screenshot 1
    110 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good16 reviews
  7. Staan icon
     17 likes

    We've built our own web search index, Staan API, and we're excited to share it with you! Designed specifically for LLMs and generative AI agents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    7 alternatives
  8. Stract icon
     34 likes

    Stract is an open source search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. It's a search engine made for hackers and tinkerers just like ourselves.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    67 alternatives
  9. You.com icon
     52 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    +1
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    90 alternatives
    4.1
    Very Good8 reviews
  10. YaCy icon
     143 likes

    YaCy is a 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    +6
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    90 alternatives
  11. MetaGer icon
     58 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
    Homepage. With dark mode.
    Setting for web. With dark mode.
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    +3
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    89 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good11 reviews
  12. Morphic icon
     17 likes

    Morphic it's a fully open-source AI-powered answer engine with a generative UI. Built with Vercel AI SDK, it delivers awesome streaming results.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
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    +1
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    24 alternatives
  13. Yandex.Search icon
     113 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Telegram
    • iPad
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    Yandex.Search screenshot 1
    98 alternatives
  14. Waterfox Private Search is a meta-search engine whose goal is to eventually serve as the default search option for Waterfox, reducing our dependency on Microsoft and other intermediaries who typically serve as gatekeepers between you and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    53 alternatives
  15. 4get icon
     22 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
    Search settings retrieved from main instance.
    Instance list retrieved from main instance.
    Homepage of main instance.
    65 alternatives
    3.8
    Good11 reviews
  16. Whoogle Search icon
     33 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
    Whoogle Search screenshot 1
    91 alternatives
  17. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Marginalia Search screenshot 1
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    47 alternatives
  18. Intelligence X icon
     21 likes

    Intelligence X is a search engine and data archive. Search Tor, I2P, data leaks and the public web by email, domain, IP, CIDR, Bitcoin address and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    118 alternatives
  19. Wiby icon
     11 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    62 alternatives
  20. Mwmbl Search icon
     13 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Main Page
    Search Result For "Mastodon"
    72 alternatives