Search Engines Comparison
Search Engines
| Name |
Javascript is required |
Backend |
Manipulated results |
Ads |
Does it block Tor? |
Source of the results |
Summary |
| Google |
Kinda |
Proprietary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Collected by their own crawler |
Even when JS is disabled the search results are hidden behind a Google tracking proxy (e.g.: google.com/url?q=result.com). The results are not consistent, you get different results based on how much information they know about your session. AVOID IT AT ALL COST!!!! |
| Bing |
Kinda, only text results |
Proprietary |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Collected by their own crawler |
Another useless spyware from Microsoft, avoid it. |
| Yahoo! |
No |
Proprietary |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Collected by their own crawler |
Results change based on your location, avoid it. |
| DuckDuckGo |
Kinda, only text results |
Proprietary |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Mainly Bing but they fetch results from multiple search engines, they have their own crawler as well |
They censor "misinformation" regarding Ukraine, their web browser whitelists trackers from Microsoft. AVOID IT! |
| Startpage |
No |
Proprietary |
Probably not |
Yes |
No |
Google |
Just another useless spyware that claims to be private and privacy respecting, avoid it. |
| Qwant |
No |
Proprietary |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Collected by their own crawler |
Results change based on your location. Just another useless spyware that claims to be private and privacy respecting, avoid it. |
| Ecosia |
Yes |
Proprietary |
Probably not |
Yes |
No |
Yahoo!, Bing, Wikipedia |
Just another useless spyware that claims to be private and privacy respecting, avoid it. |
| Swisscows |
Yes |
Proprietary |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Bing and they have their own crawler |
Just another useless spyware that claims to be private and privacy respecting, avoid it. |
| Yandex |
Kinda, no image results |
Proprietary |
? |
Yes |
You have to solve a captcha (this works without JS) |
Collected by their own crawler |
Avoid it. |
| Brave Search |
Kinda, no image results |
Proprietary |
Probably not |
No |
No |
Google |
You should avoid it |
| LibreY |
No and doesn't have any JS |
AGPL-3.0 |
No |
No |
No |
Many search engines |
Recommended |
| SearXNG |
Kinda, not user friendly without JS |
AGPL-3.0 |
No |
No |
No |
Many search engines |
Recommended |
| Whoogle |
No |
MIT |
No |
No |
No |
Google |
Recommended |
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