YaCy review: a search index you run yourself
YaCy is a free open-source search engine you run yourself. See how the peer network works, what stays on your computer, and how to install it.
YaCy is a free open-source search engine you run yourself. See how the peer network works, what stays on your computer, and how to install it.
Marginalia Search is a search engine for the noncommercial web. See how your queries are handled, what the index finds, and who should use it.
MetaGer is a nonprofit metasearch you pay for with tokens. See what this Hannover search engine stores, what a search costs, and how anonymous browsing works.
SearXNG is metasearch software. A server you run, or a public instance someone else runs, asks Google, Bing, and other sources, then shows you a combined page. Those upstream engines see the instance’s address, not yours, if the instance is doing its job. The operator of that instance still sees your queries. A random public […]
Kagi charges a subscription and does not sell ads against your queries. Lenses let you tilt results toward sites you trust and away from farms. The company is in the United States. You are the customer, which is the actual privacy claim: they do not need a dossier to sell to someone else. Paying does […]
Brave Search keeps its own web index. It is one of the few engines that does not rent Google or Bing for the main results. There is no account and no ad profile built from your queries. Goggles are rule files that re-rank what you see, so you can demote content farms or lift sites […]
DuckDuckGo is the private search box most people already know. It does not build a search profile, and the browser and extension block a lot of third-party trackers on the pages you open. Bang shortcuts, such as !w for Wikipedia, send one query straight to another site. The honest limit: the results are still mostly […]
Mojeek has crawled the web on its own machines since 2004, from the UK. No account, no ad profile, no retargeting pixel. The results page looks plain because it is not trying to become a portal. An independent crawler is smaller. News, images, and very new pages are weaker than Google. That is the trade, […]
Startpage fetches Google’s results and shows them to you, so Google does not get your IP address or a lasting search profile from that visit. The company is in the Netherlands. Anonymous View can open the result page through Startpage’s proxy, which also hides your address from the site you clicked. You are still looking […]
BellCrier breach check
Most people are, and never hear about it. BellCrier checks your email against known data breaches for free, then alerts you when it turns up in a new one, with exactly what leaked and how to fix it.
