Search Engines
Best Privacy-Focused Search Engines
(2025)
SearXNG
SearXNG is an open source, configurable, self-hostable, metasearch engine that compiles results from countless search engines in the same place.
Brave Search
Brave Search indexes its own results with Brave's crawlers while respecting user privacy.
Mullvad Leta
Mullvad's Leta uses the Google Search API as a proxy to deliver Google results privately. It also proxies Brave Search results.
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is a metasearch engine with mainly Bing results and an emphasis on user privacy.
Startpage
Startpage is a metasearch engine with privately proxied Google and Bing results.
Kagi
Kagi is a paid search engine that promises privacy with a sustainable business model. No ads, no tracking.