CC Search Alternatives

Qwant is a EU-based search engine that respects your privacy by providing search results without tracking or user profiling. The search engine is built in France and index and ranks web pages with its own technology and algorithms without collecting personal data. This allows users to ensure confidentiality of their searches and privacy protection under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when using Qwant.

SearX is a decentralized, non-commercial and privacy-respecting metasearch engine that aggregates results from more than 70 search services. With SearX, users can enjoy the power of search engines without being profiled and tracked. The distributed nature of searX allow anyone to run an instance of the software, hosted for everyone to use. SearX is released free and open-source under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.

With Google Search you can search for information from webpages, images, videos and more. Google Search is the world's most popular search engine and dominates the search market with close to 90% market share. In the early days of search, Google was able to provide better results than its competitors, thanks to its Google Page Rank algorithm. The algorithm focused on calculating relevancy through backlinks found online. Today, Google's ranking algorithm includes over 200 major signals to establish site authority and ranking.

Startpage is a search engine that deliver tools that can help you stay in control of your personal data and protect your privacy while searching online. Startpage does not save, share or sell your personal data, nor does it use third-party cookies and trackers. The search engine gets its results from Google Search, which it pays for with the help of search keyword related ads provided when using Startpage.

Private.sh is an encrypted proxy-based private search engine without any logging and with auditable code. The privacy-focused search engine is a collaborative venture between Private Internet Access and GigaBlast. Private.sh is one of the few US-based search engines that maintain its own index of more than a billion pages.

Search Encrypt is a privacy focused search engine that uses local encryption to ensure that your identifiable information cannot be tracked. Search Encrypt gets its results from a network of search partners, providing well-rounded results that aren’t personalized to your history. After 15 minutes of inactivity with Search Encrypt, the search engine automatically erases your search history, allowing you to not worry about privacy concerns when other people access the search engine from the same computer.