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Search privately and without ads — Uruky

Search privately and without ads using Uruky, the private search engine.

Best Private Search Engines 2026: 6 Ranked & Compared

Brave, Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Kagi, Mojeek and Qwant compared for 2026: who tracks what, real pricing, and the one privacy step no search engine can do.

Curated retrieval versus open web search in public AI information...

Public institutions increasingly use large language models (LLMs) to answer citizens' questions, often pairing a curated knowledge base with live web search, yet whether the sources behind these...

DuckDuckGo Lite: Fast, Lightweight Private Search

The lightest weight version of DuckDuckGo private search. Loads fast on slow connections and compatible with text-based browsers.

Staan — The European Search API for developers & AI

An independent European web search index. Real-time, source-cited results from €2 per 1,000 requests — 1,000 free each month.

Blog Search Engine & Website Search Tool | Search My Site

Search real content by real people across thousands of personal websites. Plus, add a fast, custom site search bar to your own site with just one line of code.

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Indie search engine for discovering personal and small-web sites — built largely by visitors like you.

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.

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.

The Web Can Thrive Without Google’s Search Monopoly

Viable browsers and meaningful contributions to web standards can be sustained with more modest revenue streams, writes Alissa Cooper.

The future of search isn’t Google — and it’s $10 a month

Paying for a search engine is a lot to ask, but you might not have a better option anymore.

Why Google’s New AI-Saturated Search Page Will Be A Disaster

Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honor belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has…

Welcome - OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search

Michael Granitzer University Passau and Open Search Foundation, Coordinator of OpenWebSearch.EU