Startpage
Centralized
Metasearch Engine
Startpage is a search engine that provides Google search results with complete privacy protection. Startpage BV is a Netherlands-based company that has been dedicated to privacy-respecting search since 2006.
Notes:
Startpage’s majority shareholder is System1 which is an analytics company. This should not be an issue as they have their own Privacy Policy.
According to their Privacy Policy, they only log details such as: operating system, type of browser and language. They do not log your IP address, search queries or other identifying information.
DuckDuckGo
Centralized
Metasearch Engine
DuckDuckGo is a search engine that claims to not track you. It provides search results sourced from Microsoft's Search Engine called Bing, but with complete privacy protection. The core of DuckDuckGo is proprietary.
Notes:
DuckDuckGo is an American company.
Their Privacy Policy states they do log your search query, but not your IP or any other identifying information. DuckDuckGo offers a Tor Hidden Service for increased anonymity, and a Lite Version which is HTML only (no JS).
Qwant
Centralized
Uses its own index/DB
Qwant is a search engine with its philosophy based on two principles: no user tracking and no filter bubble. Qwant also offers a mobile browser (for Android & iOS) based on Mozilla Firefox, with Qwant as the default search engine.
Notes:
Qwant is a French company.
While Qwant's core is not completely open source, it is believed that Qwant does not unethically track you in any way. Qwant seems to take numerous precautions to limit third parties from gaining insight into user search queries.
