10 private search engines that do not track you
Private browsing using the private or incognito modes provided in your browser, does not give you the level of privacy you think it does. If you really don’t want to be tracked and also don’t want anyone tracking your searches, try these search engines.
1.DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is a very secure search engine that never tracks your searches while providing you really good search experience. The main purpose of building this search engine is for people who likes to remain private while searching, and delivers instant results without tailored ads on the search pages. DuckDuckGo gets around 10M+ searches a day.
2.WolframAlpha
This is a great computable search engine which provides very accurate answers and offers open knowledge. WolframAlpha’s main purpose is to serve knowledge and nonetheless it does not track what you search for. WolframAlpha performs dynamic calculations using built-in algorithms and delivers an expert knowledge about calculations, people, money & finance, health & medicines, music & movies and much more.
3.Startpage
Startpage is a powerful search engine which provides accurate results while protecting your searches and avoiding tracking your steps. It offers browsing through a proxy server and helps protecting you from websites that track your IP address or location. You can add Startpage to your browser, on Firefox or Chrome , and even change its color theme.
4.Privatelee
There is nothing much to talk about Privatelee but it enables strict filters and secure searches if you need it. Privatelee doesn’t keeps your search keywords to be used for surveillance or adds. It offers ‘PowerSearch‘ commands that lets you configure search source and more. It is also famous by name Qrobe.it.
5.Yippy
Yippy allows you to manually filter the results according to categories and flag any inappropriate result. Unlike some engines, it allows searching of many types of content including images, web, news, blogs, jobs, government data, etc. Yippy lets you view cached pages (like Google) and filter results by tags like sources, clouds, websites. Yippy does not track your search queries and doesn’t show customized ads.
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6.Hulbee
This is a private search that delivers instant searches while not tracking your location history or search. Hulbee provides very intelligent information yet never analyses or stores its visitor’s details. All your searches are encrypted for security against man in the middle attacks and data leaks. There is an option to choose a region for most relevant search results and then lets you ‘clear your activity‘ to avoid any trace of information.
7.Ixquick
Ixquick is the main search engine from the company that runs Startpage. Unlike Startpage, Ixquick pulls results from a variety of sources instead of only Google – this can be a good or a bad thing, depending on how much you like Google’s search results. Ixquick and Startpage have essentially the same design. Ixquick includes the same privacy features Startpage does, including the Ixquick proxy links in the search results.
8.Disconnect Search
Just like Gibiru, Disconnect Search uses search assistance from major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing but it does not track your online activities or searches or IP address. It lets you search by location so that you get accurate and relevant search results based on the information you provided.
9.Lukol
Lukol uses a proxy server to give you customized search results from Google using its own enhanced custom search. It conserves your privacy by removing traceable entities. Lukol is considered as one of the best private search engines that protects from online information and keeps the spammers away from you by safeguarding you from inappropriate and misleading sites. It ensures full anonymity for your searches.
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10.MetaGer
MetaGer lets you make confidential untraceable searches that leave no footprints. It also integrates a proxy server so that you can open any link anonymously from the search result pages and yet keep your IP address hidden from the destination server. It also never tracks your keywords. This prohibits third parties or advertisers to target you for ads or any of malicious attacks. Its default language is in German.
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