Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Built Anonymous Search Engine for Facebook Pages launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1NF
   New, Fast, Anonymous, Tor-First Search Engine▲9

   2019 · search4tor7txuze.onion · its alternatives →

2. 2TS
   The Social Search Engine, A crowd-sourced, anonymous social search tool▲9

   2021 · thesocialsearchengine.com · its alternatives →

3. 3AM
   Anonymous Mode, an experiment with anonymity on Facebook▲9

   2011 · anonymousmode.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   The Social Search Engine▲71

   A crowd-sourced, anonymous social search engine

   2021 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Tesse▲99

   A new interactive search engine with people as results

   2017 · tesse.io · its alternatives →

6. 6
   searx▲82

   A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

   2016 · its alternatives →

7. 7SF
   Solve for All – customizable, private, hackable search engine▲7

   2016 · solveforall.com · its alternatives →

8. 8WM
   Wannaask.me - Anonymous questions for Facebook users▲6

   2011 · wannaask.me · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Anonysurfer▲102

   Surf the web with anonymous and private web proxies

   2014 · its alternatives →

10. 10PC
    Privacy conscious, discovery focused search engine – Whize (Alpha)▲6

    2020 · alpha.whize.co · its alternatives →

11. 11AA
    Axomark – Anonymous Social Bookmarks▲6

    2022 · axomark.xyz · its alternatives →

12. 12BA
    Built a small search engine without the fluff▲6

    2024 · kgrep.com · its alternatives →

13. 13EO
    Enhanced, Open-Source Google Search for Hackers▲5

    2016 · search.spince.com · its alternatives →

14. 14PA
    PATSR: A simple social media site based on anonymity, tags, and sharing▲6

    2017 · patsr.co · its alternatives →

15. 15PS
    Private Search – Decoupled identity and search, no Google/Bing▲5

    2020 · private.sh · its alternatives →

16. 16IB
    I built a 2B-page search engine, independent of Google/Bing▲8

    Hi HN, For the last 18 months, I've been working solo on building a completely independent search engine from scratch. Today, I'm opening it up for beta testing and would love to get your feedback. The project powers two public sites from the same 2-billion-page index: Searcha.Page: A session-aware search engine that uses a persistent browser key (not a cookie) for better context. Seek.Ninja: A 100% stateless, privacy-first version with no identifiers at all. The entire stack is self-hosted on a single ~$4k bare-metal EPYC server in my laundry room (no cloud, no VC funding). The search…

    2025 · its alternatives →

17. 17WC
    Web crawler for social profile links▲6

    2015 · stalky.in · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Peer-to-peer web search over the YaCy network▲5

    SearXNG — a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine

    14d ago · search.my-yacy-node.org · its alternatives →

19. 19
    LazyWeb – Conversational search engine that's ad-free and private▲24

    LazyWeb brings you Andi search - conversational, anonymous, and ad-free. Find what you need.

    2021 · lazyweb.ai · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Whaleslide▲6

    A search engine that protects your privacy

    2017 · its alternatives →

21. 21PP
    Privacy preserving notes and journal webapp with personal analytics▲7

    2020 · poplar.one · its alternatives →

22. 22TS
    Tor Search - A search engine for Tor▲9

    2013 · kbhpodhnfxl3clb4.onion.to · its alternatives →

23. 23AA
    An Anonymizing News Aggregator- eliminating biases against news sources▲5

    2016 · thedailymixer.com · its alternatives →

24. 24TC
    ThreadShots.com, share anonymized Facebook posts with a single click▲9

    2015 · threadshots.com · its alternatives →

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