This page's content is a modified version from the beparanoid.de website. It has been altered in some parts by me (I'm not the original creator). If you want to see the original content you can see it
HERE. femboy.hu "alternatives" page was also used here.This also means that this might be very outdated as it was written some years ago! I'll update it here and there, but it might not be as good as it originally was.
- Dani
Avoid closed source search engines, use LibreY, SearXNG or Whoogle, also check out wiby for old-school websites
| Name | Javascript is required | Backend | Manipulated results | Ads | Does it block Tor? | Source of the results | Summary |
| Kinda | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Collected by their own crawler | Even when JS is disabled the search results are hidden behind a Google tracking proxy (e.g.: google.com/url?q=result.com). The results are not consistent, you get different results based on how much information they know about your session. AVOID IT AT ALL COST!!!! | |
| Bing | Kinda, only text results | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Collected by their own crawler | Another useless spyware from Microsoft, avoid it. |
| Yahoo! | No | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | Collected by their own crawler | Results change based on your location, avoid it. |
| DuckDuckGo | Kinda, only text results | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | Mainly Bing but they fetch results from multiple search engines, they have their own crawler as well | They censor "misinformation" regarding Ukraine, their web browser whitelists trackers from Microsoft. AVOID IT! |
| Startpage | No | Proprietary | Probably not | Yes | No | Just another useless spyware that claims to be private and privacy respecting, avoid it. | |
| Qwant | No | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | Collected by their own crawler | Results change based on your location. Just another useless spyware that claims to be private and privacy respecting, avoid it. |
| Ecosia | Yes | Proprietary | Probably not | Yes | No | Yahoo!, Bing, Wikipedia | Just another useless spyware that claims to be private and privacy respecting, avoid it. |
| Swisscows | Yes | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | Bing and they have their own crawler | Just another useless spyware that claims to be private and privacy respecting, avoid it. |
| Yandex | Kinda, no image results | Proprietary | ? | Yes | You have to solve a captcha (this works without JS) | Collected by their own crawler | Avoid it. |
| Brave Search | Kinda, no image results | Proprietary | Probably not | No | No | You should avoid it | |
| No and doesn't have any JS | AGPL-3.0 | No | No | No | Google, Wikipedia, ThePirateBay, rutor, nyaa.si, yts.mx | DEPRECATED! See fork bellow | |
| LibreY | No and doesn't have any JS | AGPL-3.0 | No | No | No | Google, Wikipedia, ThePirateBay, rutor, nyaa.si, yts.mx | Recommended |
| SearXNG | Kinda, only text results | AGPL-3.0 | No | No | No | Many search engines | Malicious hosts could replace the JS with spyware / malware. You should avoid it. |
| Whoogle | No | MIT | No | No | No | Recommended |