Search engines

10 listings, 8 verified and 2 marked Unverified. Every card opens a detail page with the ownership structure and hosting.

Verified 8 · Unverified 2

Qwant

Verified France

Privacy search engine with its own index, now partly served by the EUSP joint venture.

Owner: Qwant SAS
Headquarters: France
Hosting: France (EU)
Price: Free

Details qwant.com

Ecosia

Verified Germany

Search engine that funds tree planting from ad revenue.

Owner: Ecosia GmbH
Headquarters: Germany
Hosting: EU; results partly from Google/Bing and EUSP index
Price: Free

Details ecosia.org

Startpage

Verified Netherlands

Privacy search front end that proxies Google and Bing results without logging queries.

European brand, US parent. See the ownership watch page.

Owner: Surfboard Holding BV; majority owner System1 (United States)
Headquarters: Netherlands
Hosting: Netherlands and United States
Price: Free

Details startpage.com

Mojeek

Verified United Kingdom

Independent search engine running its own crawler and index.

Owner: Mojeek Limited
Headquarters: United Kingdom
Hosting: United Kingdom
Price: Free

Details mojeek.com

Swisscows

Verified Switzerland

Family-friendly search with its own index and no query storage.

Owner: Swisscows AG
Headquarters: Switzerland
Hosting: Switzerland
Price: Freemium

Details swisscows.com

MetaGer

Verified Germany

Non-profit metasearch run by a German association and university partners.

Owner: SUMA-EV (non-profit association)
Headquarters: Germany
Hosting: Germany
Price: Freemium

Details metager.org

Lilo

Unverified France

French metasearch that donates ad revenue to social and environmental projects.

Owner: Lilo SAS
Headquarters: France
Hosting: Unverified
Price: Free

Details lilo.org

YaCy

Verified Germany (project origin)

Peer-to-peer search software anyone can run as a node in a shared index.

Owner: Open-source community project
Headquarters: Germany (project origin)
Hosting: Self-hosted (distributed)
Price: Free

Details yacy.net

SearXNG

Unverified Unverified

Self-hosted metasearch aggregator that queries other engines without tracking you.

Owner: Open-source community project
Headquarters: Unverified
Hosting: Self-hosted
Price: Free

Details docs.searxng.org

Brave Search

Verified United States

Search with an independent index, included as a comparison entry.

Non-European comparison entry. Listed so readers can compare index independence claims side by side.

Owner: Brave Software Inc. (United States)
Headquarters: United States
Hosting: United States
Price: Freemium

Details search.brave.com

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