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DuckDuckGoPick
Service
Search engine that does not keep search history or build a profile; ads are based only on the current query.
- No tracking
- Closed source
- No account
- Free
- Android
- iPhone
- Mac
- Windows
- Web
Startpage
Service in Search engines
Shows Google results without passing your IP or identity to Google, plus an anonymous view proxy for opening pages.
Owned by ad-tech company System1; Startpage says its Dutch team keeps control of privacy decisions.
Privacy passport
3 of 4 checks- No trackingYesNo ads and no third-party trackers or analytics.
- Open sourceNoThe code is closed.
- Only you can read itNothing storedIt doesn't keep your content, so there is nothing to read.
- No accountYesWorks without signing up.
- FreeFree planA free plan, with paid upgrades.
Where it stands among 12 search engines
No tracking
Yes
Partly
Open source
Yes
No
No account
Yes
No
Free
Yes
No
A private swap for
Other search engines
Brave SearchPick
Service
Search with its own independent web index, no user profiling, and an optional paid plan that removes ads.
- No tracking
- Closed source
- No account
- Free plan
- Web
Kagi
Service
Paid search engine with no ads, funded by subscribers, letting you rank, block or boost sites in your results.
- No tracking
- Closed source
- Account needed
- $5/month
- Android
- iPhone
- Web
Mojeek
Service
UK search engine with its own crawler and index, so queries never go to Google or Bing and results are the same for everyone.
- No tracking
- Closed source
- No account
- Free
- Android
- iPhone
- Web
Qwant
Service
French search engine with untargeted ads and no search history, building its own European index with Ecosia.
- No tracking
- Closed source
- No account
- Free
- Android
- iPhone
- Web
Ecosia
Service
Search engine from Berlin that spends its ad profits on climate projects and does not sell personal data.
- Minimal tracking
- Closed source
- Account optional
- Free
- Android
- iPhone
- Web