Ask Alternatives

Ask is described as 'Com (or Ask Jeeves in the United Kingdom) is a search engine that allows users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language, along with traditional keyword searching. Ask.com also includes support for math, dictionary, and conversion questions' and is a web search engine in the online services category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ask, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, iPad and Android Tablet apps. The best Ask alternative is DuckDuckGo, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Ask are Startpage, SearXNG, Brave Search and Google Search.

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  1. 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...

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  2. 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...

    89 YaCy alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. 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...

    88 MetaGer alternatives

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    • F-Droid
    • Tor
     
  4. 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.

    98 Yandex.Search alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    • Telegram
    • iPad
     
  5. 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...

    64 4get alternatives

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    • Online
    • Tor
     
  6. 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...

    90 Whoogle Search alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. 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.

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    • Online
     
  8. Gibiru icon
     21 likes

    Uncensored Anonymous Search.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. Swisscows icon
     21 likes

    Privacy-first search engine providing web and image searches with no data tracking, no profiling, servers in Switzerland for privacy, encrypted connections, and automatic filtering of offensive or adult content to ensure a family-friendly experience.

    81 Swisscows alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  10. Andi icon
     26 likes

    Andi is search for the next generation using generative AI. Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers - like talking with a smart friend.

    83 Andi alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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