Here’s our list of general-purpose and specialized search engines, available to the public. The list is updated regularly. Email over the URL, if you wish to be included.

Last Update: 30/05/2023

1. DuckDuckGo
Founded in 2008, DuckDuckGo is a privacy search engine that doesn’t track user data and generates unbiased SERP search results. It is a great option for those who are concerned about their privacy online.

Specialization: Privacy

2. You.com
You.com is an AI and privacy-focused search engine with personalized search. It is a general-purpose search engine that is privacy-focused.

Specialization: General, Privacy Focused

3. Yep.com
Yep.com is a search engine from the ahrefs project. It is a general-purpose search engine with AI (tldr) that indexes over 5 million pages per minute.

Specialization: General

4. Google
Google is the world’s most popular search engine that offers search results for webpages, images, videos, and more. Founded in 1998.

Specialization: General

5. Bing
Bing is Microsoft’s search engine that provides web search, image search, video search, and map search. Founded in 2009.

Specialization: General

6. Yahoo
Yahoo is a web portal and search engine that offers search, news, email, and more. 

Specialization: General

7. Baidu
Baidu is a very popular search engine in China that offers its users web search, image search, video search, and more. It was founded in 2000.

Specialization: China

8. Ask
Ask is a question and answering engine that provides answers to questions. It was founded in 1996.

Specialization: Question-answering

9. Swisscows
Swisscows is a privacy search engine based in Switzerland that doesn’t store any user data and provides family-friendly search results. It was founded in 2013.

Specialization: Privacy

10. StartPage
StartPage is a privacy search engine that fetches results from Google and is privacy-oriented by not tracking user data.

Specialization: Privacy

11. Qwant
Qwant is a privacy-based search engine based in France that doesn’t track user data. 

Specialization: Privacy

12. Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge-based search engine that provides answers to questions based on data and algorithms. 

Specialization: Question-answering

13. Ecosia
Ecosia is a search engine that uses its profits to plant trees around the world. With over 175 million trees planted to date.

Specialization: Socially responsible

14. Gibiru
Gibiru is a privacy search engine that doesn’t record user data and provides uncensored search results.

Specialization: Privacy

15. MetaGer
MetaGer is a privacy search engine based in Germany that doesn’t store any user data and provides uncensored search results.

Specialization: Privacy

16. Boardreader
Boardreader is a search engine that indexes web forums and discussion boards on a variety of topics. 

Specialization: Forum search 

17. Creative Commons Search
Creative Commons Search is a search engine that specializes in searching for Creative Commons licensed content. It was founded in 2019.

Specialization: Creative Commons search

18. Mojeek
Mojeek is a privacy-oriented search engine based in the UK that doesn’t track user data and provides unbiased search results. Founded in 2004.

Specialization: Privacy

19. Peekier
Peekier is a privacy-focused search engine that provides search results in a visually appealing way. founded in 2017.

Specialization: Privacy

20. Searx
Searx is an open-source search engine that fetches results from multiple search engines. 

21. Search Encrypt
Search Encrypt is a privacy search engine that encrypts user data and doesn’t store any identifiable information. It was founded in 2016.

Specialization: Privacy 

22. Openverse
Openverse is a search engine for more than 700 million creative works under a Creative Commons or public domain license.

Specialization: Creative Commons search

23. Anoox
Anoox is a non-profit, social search engine that was founded in 2004. 

Specialization: Non-profit, Social Search

24. AOL Search
AOL Search is a search engine powered by Google that provides web search, image search, video search, and more. 

Specialization: General

25. Dogpile
Dogpile is a meta search engine that fetches results from multiple search engines and directories. It was founded in 1996.

Specialization: Meta search

26. Excite
Excite is a web portal and search engine that provides web search, news, email, and more. It was founded in 1995.

Specialization: General 

27. Lycos
Lycos is a web portal and search engine that provides web search, email, and more. It was founded in 1994.

Specialization: General