SearXNG
The actively maintained successor to Searx. Self-hostable, open source metasearch engine. Users can access existing public instances.
Free Search Engines
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Brave Search
Blog post about the new Brave Search beta . Based in the US. Launched in June 2021.
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.…
DuckDuckGo
Privacy-focused search engine and mobile browser. Blocks trackers, forces encrypted connections, and does not profile you. Partially open-source, based in the US.
Startpage
Obtains Google search results while protecting users' privacy. Based in the Netherlands. Launched in 1998.
Qwant
French private search engine, EU-hosted, no personal data stored, blending its own index with Bing results.