Search Engines
Find a search engine that doesn't track your queries or build an advertising profile based on your searches.
Privacy Respecting Search Engines
Searx
Searx is an open-source, self-hostable, metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users. There is a list of public instances or you can try the PrivacyTools instance.
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is a "search engine that doesn't track you." Some of DuckDuckGo's code is free software hosted at GitHub, but the core is proprietary. The company is based in the USA.
Qwant
Qwant is a search engine with its philosophy based on two principles: no user tracking and no filter bubble. The company is based in France.
Startpage.com
Startpage.com is a search engine that provides Google search results with complete privacy protection. Startpage BV is a Netherlands-based company that has been dedicated to privacy-respecting search since 2006.
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Worth Mentioning
- MetaGer - An open-source, metasearch engine run as a non-profit based in Germany. (Privacy Policy)
- Mojeek - An independent search engine based in the UK, and the first search engine to have a policy of not tracking its users. (Privacy Policy)
- YaCy - An open-source, peer-to-peer search engine powered by its users.