List of internet search engines

This list of Internet search engines contains the latest general Internet search engines for children and adults . Projects that have been discontinued or that are limited to certain specialist areas are not included in this list.

Search engine is in the EU operated
(with proxy -search can data to servers that are outside the EU, to be transferred)

Surname	Published	particularities	goal	Anonymous	Website URL
Own index with web crawler
Baidu	2000	Chinese search engine, uses Bing for English search results	No	No	Baidu.com
Bing	06.2009	Microsoft search engine	No	No	Bing.com
DuckDuckGo	2008	little advertising, combination of meta search engine and own web crawler	Yes	Yes	DuckDuckGo.com
Fastbot	2004	no advertising, voice output, no commercial links in search results	No	No	Fastbot.de
Google	09.1997	biggest search engine, big data collector	No	No	Google.de
Mojeek	2004	Search engine from Brighton in England	No	Yes	Mojeek.de
Qwant	2013	Servers in the EU, no targeted ads	No	Yes	Qwant.com
Search.ch	1995	Swiss search engine with many special functions, e.g. B. SMS	No	No	Search.ch
Yandex	1997	Russian language search engine	No	No	Yandex.ru
Proxy search engine
Disconnect Search	?	Choice between DuckDuckGo, Bing and Yahoo, with Yahoo using the search results from Bing	No	Yes	search.disconnect.me
Ecosia	2009	environmentally inspired website; Results from Bing, formerly Yahoo	No	No	Ecosia.org
Fireball	1996	specialized in search results in German	No	Yes	Fireball.de
Lycos	1997	Search results from Bing, formerly an independent search engine with its own crawler	No	No	Lycos.com
Startpage	2006	Server in the EU, search results from Google	No	Yes	Startpage.com
Swisscows	2014	Server in Switzerland, no storage of user data, family-friendly search results	No	Yes	Swisscows.ch
Yahoo	1995	Search results from Bing	No	No	Yahoo.com
Metasearch engine
MetaGer	1996	Metager uses the search results from numerous other search engines	Yes	Yes	Metager.de
searx	2014	Open source, many ways to limit search results (e.g. language, files, locations, images, age of the results)	No	Yes	searx.me
Peer-to-peer search engine
YaCy	2003	Users are independent of companies	No	Yes	Yacy.net
Hidden Service Search Engine (Tor)
Ahmia	2013	also accessible without Tor Browser	Yes	Yes	Ahmia.fi
Torch	?	great index	Yes	Yes	only Tor Hidden Service
Search engine for children
Blindman's Buff	1997	is operated by a non-profit association	No	Yes	Blinde-Kuh.de
Fragfinn	?	Funding program of the German federal government , own homepage for use in school lessons	No	optional	FragFinn.de
Bright head	2004	highlights content with high educational value, also offers online games and editorial contributions	No	Yes	Helles-Köpfchen.de
Qwant Junior	?	without commercial ads, highlights content with high educational value	No	Yes	Qwantjunior.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Story of Baidu - GF China Marketing. Retrieved January 13, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Microsoft with a colorful search engine: Bing: Microsoft's Google competitor is online - TecChannel Workshop. Retrieved January 13, 2018 . 
3. ↑ About DuckDuckGo. Retrieved January 13, 2018 . 
4. ↑ DuckDuckGo on Tor
5. ↑ fastbot: fastbot >>. Retrieved January 20, 2018 . 
6. ^ Hans-Christian Dirscherl: Competition for Google: Fastbot . In: PC WORLD . ( pcwelt.de [accessed on September 8, 2018]).
7. ↑ Google Turns 18 Today; Google.com Domain Was Registered on September 15, 1997 • TechVorm . In: TechVorm . September 15, 2015 ( techvorm.com [accessed January 13, 2018]).
8. ↑ These are the Google challengers from Europe. Retrieved March 25, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Benedikt Fuest: Qwant: European search engine promises data protection . In: THE WORLD . March 4, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed January 13, 2018]).
10. ↑ Search.ch - Swiss search engine. Retrieved September 15, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Benjamin Bidder: Russian portal Yandex: "We respect Google, but we are better" . In: Spiegel Online . October 3, 2010 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 13, 2018]).
12. ↑ Disconnect: Disconnect. Retrieved January 14, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Search engines: Disconnect Search protects against Google's curiosity . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on September 8, 2018]).
14. ↑ Fireball data protection. Retrieved January 20, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Search engine from Switzerland: Swisscows answer engine. Retrieved April 27, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Jens Ihlenfeld: Yahoo will search in the future with Microsoft's Bing . In: Golem.de . July 29, 2009 ( golem.de [accessed January 20, 2018]).
17. ↑ MetaGer - German search engine improved with relaunch. Retrieved January 13, 2018 . 
18. ↑ Metager about Tor
19. ↑ Tauber, Adam - " searx: A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine " ( Memento from November 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
20. ↑ Searx 0.10.0: Your own search engine on a Raspberry Pi - Golem.de . ( golem.de [accessed on September 8, 2018]).
21. ↑ De: Privacy - YaCyWiki. Retrieved January 21, 2018 . 
22. ↑ About Us - Ahmia. Retrieved January 14, 2018 . 
23. ↑ Ahmia über Tor ( memento of the original from July 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
24. ↑ Torch - Darknet search engine . In: CHIP Online . ( chip.de [accessed on September 8, 2018]).
25. ↑ Search engines for the Tor network - Darpa: Memex is to become the search engine for the deep web - Golem.de. Retrieved January 17, 2019 (German). 
26. ↑ Torch about Tor ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
27. ^ Information for adults, information on the blind cow search engine. Retrieved January 20, 2018 . 
28. ↑ Bright head. Retrieved May 22, 2019 . 
29. ^ Qwant Junior - Qwant Help Center. Retrieved January 20, 2018 .