Private Search Engines

Startpage

Centralized

Metasearch Engine

Startpage 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.

Notes:
Startpage’s majority shareholder is System1 which is an analytics company. This should not be an issue as they have their own Privacy Policy.

According to their Privacy Policy, they only log details such as: operating system, type of browser and language. They do not log your IP address, search queries or other identifying information.

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DuckDuckGo

Centralized

Metasearch Engine

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that claims to not track you. It provides search results sourced from Microsoft's Search Engine called Bing, but with complete privacy protection. The core of DuckDuckGo is proprietary.

Notes:
DuckDuckGo is an American company.

Their Privacy Policy states they do log your search query, but not your IP or any other identifying information. DuckDuckGo offers a Tor Hidden Service for increased anonymity, and a Lite Version which is HTML only (no JS).

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Qwant

Centralized

Uses its own index/DB

Qwant is a search engine with its philosophy based on two principles: no user tracking and no filter bubble. Qwant also offers a mobile browser (for Android & iOS) based on Mozilla Firefox, with Qwant as the default search engine.

Notes:
Qwant is a French company.

While Qwant's core is not completely open source, it is believed that Qwant does not unethically track you in any way. Qwant seems to take numerous precautions to limit third parties from gaining insight into user search queries.

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Searx

Decentralized

Open Source

Metasearch Engine

Searx is is an open source decentralized privacy-respecting metasearch engine which pulls results from many different search engines including Startpage, Google, Wikipedia, and much more, with complete privacy protection.

Notes:
Searx is completely open source and is decentralized. Because of this, it is the most trustworthy, reliable, and secure.

Searx does not have its own index. It is a metasearch engine that fetches results from numerous other search engines. Essentially, Searx is a proxy between the user & the search engines that it aggregates results from.

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Onion Search Engine

Centralized

Uses its own index/DB

No JS

Onion Search Engine is private and anonymous search engine. They claim to not track their users. As the name suggests, they let you search the Tor Network (or the Clearnet), and offer a Tor Hidden Service for increased anonymity.

Notes:
Onion Search Engine does not use any Javascript, so you can disable JS in your browser without issue. Onion Search Engine is also behind OnionMail.org, Onion.social, and other brands/services. We believe that they are very trustworthy.

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Decentrasearch

Decentralized

Metasearch Engine

Anonymous

Decentrasearch by Swivro is a decentralized search system that improves your privacy by sending your search query to a randomly-picked SearX instance in the Decentrasearch database. This means every time you search, you connect to a different server, making it harder for malicious actors to build a profile on you.

Notes:
We are indeed the ones who created Decentrasearch, and we truly believe that it is the most private, anonymous, and secure way to search the internet. While it may not be the most visually appealing and may not be the fastest, it is extremely private.

Decentrasearch, if you haven't noticed, is created and ran by Swivro. While it doesn't have a dedicated git repository for the code, everything is ran locally (javascript) on your device, so you can view the page source to get all of the code.

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