Ecosia Alternatives

Ecosia is described as 'Search engine donating over 80% of profits to global reforestation, supporting millions of trees planted, funded by ad revenue, with mobile and web access' and is a very popular web search engine in the online services category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Ecosia for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, Google Chrome and iPad apps. The best Ecosia alternative is DuckDuckGo, which is free. Other great apps like Ecosia are Startpage, SearXNG, Brave Search and Google Search.

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  1. YaCy icon
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    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...

    90 YaCy alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. 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.

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    • Online
     
  3. Microsoft Bing icon
     162 likes

    This is the main entry for the search engine tool. For content related to AI Chatbot and AI-powered features, visit Microsoft Copilot

    105 Microsoft Bing alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Xbox
     
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    They do donate money to charity if you set it up to.

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    • Microsoft Bing is Free and ProprietaryEcosia is also Free and Proprietary
  4. 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...

    91 Whoogle Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Telegram
    • iPad
     
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  6. Presearch icon
     85 likes

    Presearch is a community-powered, decentralized search engine that provides better results while protecting your privacy and rewarding you when you search.

    93 Presearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  7. 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...

    65 4get alternatives

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    • Online
    • Tor
     
  8. 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

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    • Online
     
  9. Arc Search icon
     11 likes

    Arc Search is a modern, AI-powered mobile browser. Features include a quick keyboard pop-up for searches, ad and tracker blocking, webpage summaries with the Browse for Me feature, auto-archive for inactive tabs, and a distraction-free Reader mode.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  10. 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.

    47 Marginalia Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  11. 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
     
  12. Gibiru icon
     21 likes

    Uncensored Anonymous Search.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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