The Best Open Source Google Search AlternativesTop Web Search & Image Search Engines like Google Search

The best open source alternative to Google Search is SearXNG. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Google Search and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Google Search are YaCy, MetaGer, Whoogle Search and 4get.

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    Private, ad-free meta-search engine with no tracking, no query logging, and no personal data collection. Supports both web and image search, allows domain/TLD personalization, is fully EU-based, offers a monthly pay-as-you-use model, and includes night mode for users.

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  1. SearXNG icon
     147 likes

    Metasearch engine aggregating results from up to 251 services, offering strong privacy, no tracking, encrypted connections, Tor access, script and cookie flexibility, customizable engines, support for 58 languages, and user-selectable light or dark themes.

    104 SearXNG alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
     
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  2. YaCy icon
     148 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...

    90 YaCy alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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  3. MetaGer icon
     59 likes

    Open source metasearch engine blending results from several sources, offering private, uncensored web search, transparent algorithms, no user tracking, and nonprofit operation, with public code, energy-efficient hosting, and an optional dark theme interface.

    87 MetaGer alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Tor
     
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  4. Whoogle Search icon
     36 likes

    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.

    90 Whoogle Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. 4get icon
     24 likes

    This is a metasearch engine that gets results from other engines, and strips away all of the tracking parameters and Microsoft/globohomo bullshit they add. Most of the other alternatives to Google jack themselves off about being ""privacy respecting"" or...

    63 4get alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Tor
     
  6. Open source search solution crawling the web to prioritize small and non-commercial sites, supporting unique discovery of personal content, white-label deployment, cost-effective hardware, side-loaded indexing, and ongoing improvements for configurability.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  7. searxist icon
     8 likes

    A simple Android app to wrap SearXNG with Material You colors, plus some system integrations.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  8. Mwmbl Search icon
     16 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.

    71 Mwmbl Search alternatives

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    • Online
     
  9. Wiby icon
     12 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.

    61 Wiby alternatives

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    • Online
     
  10. Araa icon
     6 likes

    A privacy-respecting, ad-free, self-hosted Google metasearch engine with strong security that offers full API support and utilizes Qwant for images, and DuckDuckGo for auto-complete.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • NGINX
     
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