SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from up to 267 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity.
searxng/searxng
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
A Former Google Engineer Built a Search Engine for Finding Every Privacy Violation You Face Online
Former Google engineer Tim Libert is releasing a search engine, webXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.”
Hister | Your Own Search Engine
Hister is a private, self hosted search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. Search from the web, terminal, command line, or MCP.
Spacedrive — A local-first data engine for everything you own
Index any data source. Search everything from one place. Keep it on your machine.
Search privately and without ads — Uruky
Search privately and without ads using Uruky, the private search engine.
Xapian
Xapian is a free and open-source probabilistic information retrieval library, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).[2] It is a full-text search engine library for programmers.
OpenSearch description format - XML | MDN
The OpenSearch description format can be used to describe the web interface of a search engine. This allows a website to describe a search engine for itself, so that a browser or other client application can use that search engine. OpenSearch is supported by (at least) Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Chrome. (See Reference Material for links to other browsers' documentation.)
The enshittification of online search? Privacy and quality of Google, Bing and Apple in coding advice
Even though currently being challenged by ChatGPT and other large-language models (LLMs), Google Search remains one of the primary means for many individuals to find information on the internet. Interestingly, the way that we retrieve information on the web has hardly changed ever since Google was established in 1998, raising concerns as to Google's dominance in search and lack of competition. If the market for search was sufficiently competitive, then we should probably see a steady increase in search quality over time as well as alternative approaches to the Google's approach to search. However, hardly any research has so far looked at search quality, which is a key facet of a competitive market, especially not over time. In this report, we conducted a relatively large-scale quantitative comparison of search quality of 1,467 search queries relating to coding advice in October 2023. We focus on coding advice because the study of general search quality is difficult, with the aim of learning more about the assessment of search quality and motivating follow-up research into this important topic. We evaluate the search quality of Google Search, Microsoft Bing, and Apple Search, with a special emphasis on Apple Search, a widely used search engine that has never been explored in previous research. For the assessment of search quality, we use two independent metrics of search quality: 1) the number of trackers on the first search result, as a measure of privacy in web search, and 2) the average rank of the first Stack Overflow search result, under the assumption that Stack Overflow gives the best coding advice. Our results suggest that the privacy of search results is higher on Bing than on Google and Apple. Similarly, the quality of coding advice -- as measured by the average rank of Stack Overflow -- was highest on Bing.
A week of not using a search engine
A week or so ago, I wondered if I actually needed to use a search engine as much as I did. Why was I sending so much traffic to a third party service, especially since I can’t seem to find a search engine which aligns with my ethics and delivers good search results?
Global Search Engine Market Share in the Top 15 GDP Nations (2026)
While Google takes a large share of the global search engine market, there are other search engines like Bing and Baidu that capture their share of international SEO.
IndieSearch
I built a prototype for client-side, fully distributed search for the IndieWeb — check out the demo & a little explainer.
🔎 sqlx base - Google Search
New demo version of atsearch.network is here 💃 quick recap: any AT Proto app can invent its own record type: scrobbles, books, photos, RPGs, etc... nothing searches across them so i built a search engine that reads your lexicon and figures out how to index you
New demo version of atsearch.network is here 💃 quick recap: any AT Proto app can invent its own record type: scrobbles, books, photos, RPGs, etc... nothing searches across them so i built a search engine that reads your lexicon and figures out how to index you
Hate to say it, but I might need to stop my indexer for docs.surf. It’s. Fun little project, but the costs are slowly creeping upwards as standard.site continues to grow. Tap listening to every single record just eats up way too much egress.
Docs.surf
docs.surf
