r/searchengines

I felt unsafe posting this on the Google subreddit since it seems alot of people still support that company for some reason so I hope this place is okay haha. I want to stop using chrome and Google since I lack trust in them and want to use a browser that's not 1. from a terrible company 2. supports generative/harmful AI or 3. where my data is at risk. I want a good option for both mobile and desktop. I briefly used ecosia as a search engine through chrome before but I'd prefer not having to use chrome full stop. Is that an option as an android / Microsoft user? Also if anyone has good reccomendations for browsers and search engines (and ways to transfer my bookmarks, tabs etc. to them) that'd be much appreciated. I'm not huge on anything tech-related so this is not an area of knowledge for me. Thanks!

If someone asks ChatGPT "best jeans under $100" and it mentions your brand, you'd never know. There’s no analytics, no way to track it, literally nothing.
But people are definitely using it to research purchases now. Feels like a huge blind spot compared to being able to track Google searches or social mentions.
I tried peecAI but found too much noise. Is anyone actually solving this or is it just impossible to measure right now?

A trend I've noticed recently is that when I search through Google, I will get results for things that are similar-but-not-the-same as what I searched for, along themes and patterns that suggest the search engine is adding keywords to my search.

For example, searching, "Do bats share food?" on Google gives me results exclusively about vampire bats, and the word 'Vampire' is in bold in the search results despite not being something I searched - and not something I care about, because I'm trying to read about insect-eating bats.

By contrast, using DuckDuckGo, I get results about all variety of bats with no clear trend.

Am I just seeing patterns where they don't exist, or has Google changed their search algorithm to try and guess at what it thinks you want, instead of showing search results for what you actually searched?

I keep noticing new or smaller search engines appear, and I usually try them out of curiosity.

I tried one recently called , and it made me think less about features and more about habits. Even when something feels fine to use, I still catch myself opening Google automatically without really deciding to.

For people who have actually switched and stayed with a different search engine, what made it work long-term? Was it a gradual change, or something specific that pushed you to stick with it?

I've had so many instances where i've reverse searched a image I found on platforms such as Instagram, facebook, Soundcloud, blogspot, TikTok and Tumblr that are not password protected and are publicly accessible yet they fail to appear on all conventional engines like Google Lens, Tineye, Yandex, Bing etc. Does anyone know of a universal tool that can comb through social platforms, forums, videos that are unlisted and/or not on the image section of search results?

Main reasons:

1. Google has started blocking searches for sources of 18+ images (it mostly blocks them if the chest is flat).

2. It blocks searches for cosplayers because searches related to people are restricted.

P.S. I know about the R..n Yandex, but it has RKN censorship on websites and links.

Lately people have been looking for an alternative search engine to Google as it's been censoring more and more news, info, etc. Same with You Tube (now owned by Google), well I have compiled a list of all of the internet search engines and video platforms I have come across.

Alternative search engines & video sites to Google & You Tube:

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Not all are general search engines, but "Search" is one of the functions.
My apologies if the about might be off on some of them.

AOL

• URL:

• About: A web portal and search engine that combines results from other major engines with AOL’s own content and services.

Ask

• URL:

• About: A search engine that focuses on answering questions directly, combining web search with a Q&A-style interface.

Baidu

• URL:

• About: The dominant Chinese-language search engine, offering web, image, video, and other vertical searches primarily for users in China.

Bing

• URL:

• About: Microsoft’s search engine provides web, image, video, and news results, plus integrations with Microsoft services and rewards.

Brave Search

• URL:

• About: A privacy-focused search engine from the Brave browser team that aims to minimize tracking and rely on its own index.

CC Search (Creative Commons Search)

• URL:

• About: A tool for finding openly licensed images and other media that can be reused under Creative Commons licenses.

Dogpile

• URL:

• About: A metasearch engine that aggregates results from multiple major search engines into a single results page.

DuckDuckGo

• URL:

• About: A privacy-oriented search engine that doesn’t track users and shows a simple, ad-light interface.

Ecosia

• URL:

• About: An eco-focused search engine that uses its ad revenue to fund tree planting projects around the world.

ekoru

• URL:

• About: An environmentally themed privacy search engine that donates a portion of revenue to ocean and climate causes.

entireweb

• URL:

• About: A privacy-centric search engine and ad network offering web search without user tracking.

Excite

• URL:

• About: One of the early web portals, now a metasearch engine combining results from several other providers.

Fireball

• URL:

• About: A German-based search engine that emphasizes privacy and localized results.

Freespoke

• URL:

• About: A search engine that highlights content diversity and aims to reduce perceived bias in search results.

Gibiru

• URL:

• About: A privacy search engine that markets itself as uncensored and anonymous.

GoGoPrivate

• URL:

• About: A metasearch engine focused on private browsing and anonymous search results.

Google

• URL:

• About: The most widely used search engine globally, offering comprehensive search of the web and numerous specialized services.

Goo

• URL:

• About: A Japanese search portal providing web search along with local news and services.

Internet Archive

• URL:

• About: A digital library that lets users search and view archived versions of web pages over time.

infospace

• URL:

• About: A metasearch platform that aggregates results from several major search engines and specialized sources.

iseek

• URL:

• About: A search engine aimed at professionals and students, focusing on authoritative and educational sources.

iZito

• URL:

• About: A metasearch engine that combines results from various providers into a single interface.

metacrawler

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• About: One of the original metasearch engines, pulling results from several major search services.

mojeek

• URL:

• About: An independent search engine with its own index, focused on privacy and non-tracking.

Naver

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• About: South Korea’s leading search portal with integrated news, knowledge services, and community content.

Norton Safe Search

• URL:

• About: A search service from Norton that filters results using its security ratings to flag risky sites.

OpenMD

• URL:

• About: A medical search engine that indexes health, clinical, and biomedical documents from reputable sources.

Openverse

• URL:

• About: A search tool for openly licensed images and audio, providing Creative Commons and public domain media.

Presearch

• URL:

• About: A decentralized, community-driven search engine that rewards users when they search.

QuackQuackGo

• URL:

• About: A small, privacy-minded search front-end intended as an alternative interface to mainstream engines.

Qwant

• URL:

• About: A European privacy-focused search engine that avoids tracking and profiling users.

Rambler

• URL:

• About: A Russian web portal and search engine offering news, mail, and search services.

Refseek

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• About: An academic search engine that emphasizes scholarly and educational resources over general web content.

ResultHunter

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• About: A metasearch engine that combines multiple search sources with customizable filtering.

Right Dao

• URL:

• About: A search engine emphasizing censorship resistance and on-chain indexing concepts.

SearchThat (ST)

• URL:

• About: Customizable multi-source search hub that redirects queries to major engines with plenty of other tools and features.

Seznam

• URL:

• About: A major Czech search engine and portal with localized search, maps, and email.

Shodan

• URL:

• About: A specialized search engine for discovering internet-connected devices, servers, and services.

SlideShare

• URL:

• About: A platform and search engine for presentations, documents, and professional slide decks.

Sogou

• URL:

• About: A Chinese search engine known for web search and its popular Chinese input method.

Startpage

• URL:

• About: A privacy search engine that serves Google results but strips identifying information from user requests.

StartSiden

• URL:

• About: A Norwegian portal and search page that aggregates local news, links, and search results.

Swisscows

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• About: A Swiss privacy search engine using its own index and semantic technology, also promoting family-friendly results.

Torry

• URL:

• About: A search engine aimed at discovering tools, companies, and products in the Web3 and crypto ecosystem.

WebCrawler

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• About: One of the earliest search engines, now operating as a metasearch service aggregating results.

Wiby

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• About: A niche search engine focusing on small, old-style, and independent websites over large commercial sites.

WolframAlpha

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• About: A computational knowledge engine that answers queries by calculating results from curated data and algorithms.

Yahoo Search

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• About: A longstanding web portal and search service using a mix of its own technology and partnered search results.

Yandex

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• About: Russia’s largest search engine, offering web search plus maps, mail, and many integrated services.

Yep

• URL:

• About: A search engine from Ahrefs that shares a portion of ad revenue with content creators.

You

• URL:

• About: An AI-powered search engine that blends traditional search with AI summaries, apps, and chat.

YouCare

• URL:

• About: A search engine that donates ad revenue to charitable causes such as animal welfare and humanitarian projects.

ZapMeta

• URL:

• About: A metasearch engine that compiles results and information from numerous web sources and search providers.

Google is getting worst by the day and I just cant stand it anymore, and i cant find any AI-less alternative in the big 2026.

اريد ابحث عن فستان معين عندي صورتة واريد احصلة بس اريد اعرف وين ممكن احصلة على الاقل اسم المتجر اونلاين او المحل بالواقع، اريد طريقة ممكن ابحث بيها عن منتج و تفيدني اوصل لنتيجة ١٠٠٪ فعلا هو، هل من الممكن انو تتواجد طريقة بأستخدام مواقع تواصل الاجتماعي انو احصل نفس الموديل

Ran across this site in my web server logs (referrer), seems fairly simple search (aggregated) and still being built, it was down for a bit then back up, etc.,.

I’m trying to research niche products and independent sellers and I’m tired of receiving endless Amazon, Etsy, Walmart type of results.

Other than Google dorking and using specific search queries, what tools or techniques could I use to get low traffic websites, independent sellers, personal blogs, etc.

If I was on a webpage and clicked "back" until I got to the Google search page, would what appeared in the search box be what I specifically typed in, or could it be auto populated somehow?

i have a widget that laods on peaples websites, i noticed that some of my customers face an issue:
when yoou search their website name< it will show the website with google search snippets that contain my widgets texts(instead of the website texts or descriptions)

my customer is very unhappy, i searched and found that i should put the data-nosnippet on my widgets container so it wont appear in search results and crawlers ignore the texts inside it,

but i still have a problem, his search result are still showing my widgets texts instead of his website although he deleted my widget from website(it seems that it can take some time before google recrawls the website)

how can i fasten this proccess and make his website search results like before? i dont have access to his search console

also is there any way to test if my new update on widget is working or not?

I searched for this exact French sentence on Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo: "Au cours de notre dîner de répétition de mariage, il y a maintenant trois ans". To my great surprise, the only search engine that returned a result is Yahoo Search. (edit: now it seems Yahoo search has "catched up" on Bing, and has de-indexed the relevant page, which was this one for the record: )

However, it was my understanding that Yahoo Search relies on Bing results, but Bing returns nothing with this query. Why is there a difference between the two? It probably does not come from search results customization, as I tried from various browsers in incognito mode, from three different computers, and from various IPs located in different countries.

Subsidiary question: when I search for the sentence "Au cours de notre dîner de répétition de mariage" (which is a shorter version of the previous sentence), now Bing and other search engines like Google return one result. So they all have the page indexed in their system, they just seem to be unable to process a longer sentence, contrary to Yahoo search. Why is that?

(Context explaining why I search for this sentence: as Google search results have become horrendous, I'm benchmarking various search engines on random sentences taken from pages from my Web browsing history).

edit: ironically, now Google returns this very page in its results, but still does not return the original page where the exact sentence appears.

I'm annoyed that the AI Summary Garbage has taken over so much of many of the search engines, and I was wondering if there were any good search engines that would still offer those quick lookup features that give like a real quote from a relavent article, or automatically populates something like a movie's cast from imdb, etc

I’ve been wondering if there’s any app or tool that actually lets you search your own picture and personal info online. I’m mainly curious because I want to know if my photos are being reused for fake or scam accounts on social media. Google Image Search feels very limited and often misses social platforms entirely. Has anyone found a tool that actually works for this, without being sketchy or inaccurate?

The site interface was designed basically what we expect out of modern day AI. You ask it a question, it gives you answers and breaks them into categories, all behind the respectable appearance of a butler. The issue was it operated like an inferior version of Google and completely fell off like every other non-Google search engine did at the time. Today every big corporation seems to be going all in on AI and offering the kind of interface Ask Jeeves did but with AI responses that can actually address the question, to varying degrees of success. It seems a no brainer to bring back this old brand and attempt to get a piece of the future AI marketshare by appealing to us boomers who remember it existed.

I was trying to find the earliest date of a VERY famous photograph yet TinEye kept saying 0 results despite there probably being tens of thousands. Turns out TinEye protects all copyright images, and so im guessing that image is somehow copyrighted thus wont come up. Any alternatives?

I have trued a few privacy first search engines like ddg Qwant startpadge and mojeek and personally I think ddg is the most google like at the mo I know startpadge uses google results buy ddg feels more like google and Qwant has a nice feel to it like a more cut down google a pre ai google but mojeek it I think it’s more of a wired one it dose not feel like any others search engine it is one on its own

I would like it here’s opinions on these search engine

I don't know much about search engines available but I want a search engine which is privacy focused, unbiased, and fully uncensored. Is there any available????

Hello, I’m setting up a new divise for the first time and want to use the best stuff. ive been doing so much reasurch that I’ve got a bit turned around and don’t know what to believe anymore.
I just want something that doesn’t use Ai and won’t gather info and track me. Sorry if a post like this is already up, any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏼

Hi all,

I´ve been using Ecosia for a long time, but around once a week I'll have to sign in again. I've checked everything but it keeps happening, unlike other search engines and pages. It happens in mobile and desktop (on Firefox and Brave).

I really want to keep using it, but I'm considering changing because of this.

if I perform a search on DuckDuckGo, then I want to do another search, the browser refuses to let me delete the search Field's contents.

This is frustrating, how can I fix this? happening on my Linux computers and my phone.

Hi , I wanna know if there are really good only fans searcher , like I can choose many tags ( ebony , thicc , small , goth ,milf , fake , bimbo ) and have a good display of model .

Because when sometime I search for chubby , I found thin girl , or if I search for Asian, I found latina (you see the little problem).

And which content they are doing ( more anal , squirter , etc ).

Would like to know if can combine helping ecology with having slightly more privacy than using google or maybe I should stay with duckduckgo