| Name |
JS is required |
Backend |
Manipulated results |
Ads |
Does it block Tor? |
Source of the results |
Summary |
| Google |
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, they plan on censoring "misinformation" |
Yes |
No |
Mainly Bing but they fetch results from multiple search engines, they have their own crawler as well |
It partnered with Yahoo! in July 2016 and later partnered with Bing, Yandex, and Wikipedia. Now they plan on censoring "misinformation" regarding Ukraine. They claim they respect your privacy but why is it closed source then? |
| Startpage |
No |
Proprietary |
Probably not |
Yes |
No |
Google |
Why is it closed source if it wants to protect your privacy? Avoid it when you can. |
| Qwant |
No |
Proprietary |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Collected by their own crawler |
Results change based on your location. They claim they respect your privacy but why is it closed source then? |
| Ecosia |
Yes |
Proprietary |
Probably not |
Yes |
No |
Yahoo!, Bing, Wikipedia |
They claim they respect your privacy but why is it closed source then? |
| Swisscows |
Yes |
Proprietary |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Bing and they have their own crawler |
Even though I was using Tor, results appeared in my language. They claim they respect your privacy but why is it closed source then? AVOID IT! |
| Yandex |
No |
Proprietary |
? |
Yes |
You have to solve a captcha (this works without JS) |
Collected by their own crawler |
Russia isn't really known about respecting people's privacy. Avoid it. |
| LibreX |
No and doesn't have any JS |
AGPL-3.0 |
No |
No |
No |
Google, Wikipedia, ThePirateBay, rutor, nyaa.si, yts.mx |
Recommended |
| SearXNG |
No |
AGPL-3.0 |
No |
No |
No |
Many search engines |
Recommended |
| Whoogle |
No |
MIT |
No |
No |
No |
Google |
Recommended |
