Google Search engine’s ‘personalized experience’ comes at the cost of sharing our personal data and by allowing ourselves to get tracked by Google on the internet. At some point, this personalization becomes annoying when you see too much-tailored content and ads targeting you.

Besides, there are many search engines other than Google having so much to offer, not just in terms of privacy but useful features too. So if you are not impressed with Google search results or maybe you are looking for equally good search engines, here is a list of the 12 best Google alternative websites you can check out.

♦️ DuckDuckGo
 — US-based (EU servers for EU, though).
 — Mostly Bing, Yahoo, and own crawler results
 — Issues: Proprietary, some components are free
—Terms Of Services
 — Criticism here
 — why I don’t use DuckDuckGO

♦️ SearX
-> searx.space for other instances
 — An instance of the open-source metasearch engine
 — You can choose which search engine to use for the results.
 — Issues: No privacy policy, some public instances use Cloudflare, ads or may log IP addresses/searches.

♦️ Qwant
 — French-based
 — Own crawlers and Bing results.
 — Issues: “French law makes it mandatory to keep some connection data for one year”
 — Privacy Policy
 — Terms Of Service
 — Criticism: Link1 & Link2

♦️ MetaGer
 — Open-source metasearch engine
 — Based in Germany
 — Stores some information temporarily: https://metager.org/datenschutz

♦️ YaCy
 — Distributed self-hosted search engine, built on P2P networks

♦️ Mojeek
 — Uses its own crawlers

Others:

♦️ List of search engines: Wikipedia Link

♦️ Startpage
 — Bought by an ad company
 — uses Goolag search
 — https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group

♦️ Ecosia
 — A bing frontend
 — Criticism: Click Here

♦️Gigablast
 — Fails SSL at Mozilla observatory
 — https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/www.gigablast.com

♦️ Yippy
 — Uses Goolag ads

♦️ SwissCows

♦️ Disconnect
 — Connects to Amazon

♦️ Wolfram Alpha
 — Doesn’t even work without JavaScript

♦️ Lukol
 — Shares data with Goolag
 — Privacy policy: Click Here