The Best Privacy Respecting Search Engines

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The most reliable source for privacy

1/ https://www.startpage.com/ Obtains Google search results while protecting users' privacy. Based in the Netherlands. Launched in 1998.

2/ https://duckduckgo.com/ Some of DuckDuckGo's code is free software, but the core is proprietary. Launched in 2008. Based in US.

3/ https://metager.org/ Link: MetaGer on GitLab. Based in Germany. Launched in 1996.

4/ https://www.mojeek.com/ A crawler-based search engine that provides independent search results using its own index of web pages, rather than using results from other search engines. Based in the UK. Launched in 2004.

5/ https://searx.space/# Hosted in multiple locations around the world. Self-hostable, open source metasearch engine. Users can access existing public instances.

6/ https://search.brave.com/  Blog post about the new Brave Search beta. Based in the  US. Launched in June 2021.

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If you are looking for privacy, Startpage and Duckduckgo are both a no no. While Startpage relies on Google for search results, DuckDuckGo relies on Microsoft for both search results and ads.