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See also:

• Search engine optimization
• Places for map engines.

• Other protocols may have their own search engines listed: FTP, gopher, Tor, etc.

Security and trust ∞

On security:

Using alternate and meta search engines is one way to be one step away from untrusted search engines.

However, it still comes down to trusting that search engine. Disabling referrers, or having a toggle for that feature, helps not leak information to the destination site, but everything is still tracked at the governmental [ 1 ], ISP and search engine level. Keep in mind your browser may keep history, so a compromised computer can fetch that data too.

Search engines ∞

• https://search.crossref.org/

  • For a DOI

• https://search.marginalia.nu/

  • More non-commercial.

• Brave: https://search.brave.com/

  • search.brave4u7jddbv7cyviptqjc7jusxh72uik7zt6adtckl5f4nwy2v72qd.onion
• https://swisscows.com/en
• https://yandex.com/

• https://duckduckgo.com/ [ 2 ]

  • Ideological filtering; began censoring Russian content.
• Google: https://www.google.com/
• Microsoft: https://www.bing.com/
• https://www.qwant.com/
• https://www.startpage.com/ [ 3 ]
• https://www.ask.com/
• https://www.dogpile.com/
• https://www.yahoo.com/
• https://www.mojeek.com/
• https://search.aol.com/

• https://www.ask.com/

  • Acquired the legendary “Ask Jeeves”.
• https://www.mojeek.com/
• https://www.lycos.com/

Other:

• https://sepiasearch.org/

  • For videos on the PeerTube network.

• https://yacy.net/

  • A decentralized search engine.

• https://www.pandia.com/articles/powersearch

  • A list of more engines.

• DMOZ directory (archive)

Meta search engines ∞

These are search engines which themselves fetch data from other “primary source” search engines, creating a mix of results.

See also list of meta search engines

• https://www.dogpile.com/

• https://www.entireweb.com/

Specialized search engines ∞

• https://inside.com/

  • New curated by humans.
• Google: video search

• https://askjolene.com/

  • Adult.

Reverse image search engines ∞

Provide an image, and these search engines will bring up locations where that image, or similar images, are hosted.

• Google: https://images.google.com/

  • Or is it https://www.google.com/imghp
• Microsoft: https://www.bing.com/
• https://tineye.com/

• https://yandex.com/images/

Footnotes

1. especially the USA [ ↩ ]
2. yippy.com and clusty.com redirect to duckduckgo [ ↩ ]
3. ixquick.com redirects here. ixquick is entireweb.com [ ↩ ]