Startpage
Obtains Google search results while protecting users' privacy. Based in the Netherlands. Launched in 1998.
Closed-Source Netherlands
Best Google Search Alternatives in 2026
6 private alternatives, vetted against our public criteria.
Every query feeds your profile. These engines deliver results without keeping a diary about you.
Brave Search
Blog post about the new Brave Search beta . Based in the US. Launched in June 2021.
Closed-Source USA
Mojeek
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.…
Closed-Source UK
DuckDuckGo
Some of DuckDuckGo's code is free software, but the core is proprietary. Launched in 2008. Based in US.
Partially Open-Source USA
SearXNG
The actively maintained successor to Searx. Self-hostable, open source metasearch engine. Users can access existing public instances.
Hosted Self-Hosted Open-Source UN