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.
Startpage - Private Search Engine. No Tracking. No Search History.
Search and browse the internet without being tracked or targeted. Startpage is the world's most private search engine. Use Startpage to protect your personal data.
Startpage - Private Search Engine. No Tracking. No Search History.
Search and browse the internet without being tracked or targeted. Startpage is the world's most private search engine. Use Startpage to protect your personal data.
IndieSearch
I built a prototype for client-side, fully distributed search for the IndieWeb — check out the demo & a little explainer.
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.
Search privately and without ads — Uruky
Search privately and without ads using Uruky, the private search engine.
Litter Layer
Indie search engine for discovering personal and small-web sites — built largely by visitors like you.
Standard Search
A search engine for standard.site posts, indexing documents published on AT Protocol.
Blog
For quite some time now, i have been working on and off on a fully self-hosted search engine, in hope to make it easier to search across Personal data in an end to end manner. Even as individuals, we are hoarding and generating more and more data with no end in sight. Such "personal" data is being stored from local hard-disks to corporate controlled cloud-centers which makes it distributed in nature. So for following discussion, "Personal" meaning would be flexible enough to accommodate resources on a remote server and/or on different devices, as long the user could prove authentication and/or authorization to that data. Current implementation supports only "images", but eventual goal is also to support other modalities like video, text and audio, some code would be shared, while some new code would be required to better extract Features for each modality.
HashAgent — Share a private AI agent as a URL
Local WebGPU inference with built-in web search. No account or tracking.
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.”
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.)
PeARS - the People's Search Engine
PeARS is an open-source, curated search engine that lets you take control of your search. It has privacy and energy efficiency at its core.
Common Crawl - Open Repository of Web Crawl Data
We build and maintain an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Search engines
Features and comparisons for when I’m “search engine shopping” and not so much about enshittification etc. Currently I mostly use DuckDuckGo (for when I basically know what I’m looking for) and Kagi (for when I don’t or if I’m dissatisfied with DDG; I’m not on their unlimited plan).
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Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for
Google Search’s AI evolution includes more ads
Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google [Updated]
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