Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Peer-to-peer web search over the YaCy network

SearXNG — a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

1
searx▲82
A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine
2016 · its alternatives →
2
TorrentPeek – Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite▲184
Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite - torrent-net/README.md at master · lmatteis/torrent-net
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
3
Tesse▲99
A new interactive search engine with people as results
2017 · tesse.io · its alternatives →
4
Dweb Search▲79
A decentralized search engine for IPFS and Filecoin
2021 · dweb-search.on.fleek.co · its alternatives →
5
Audiosear.ch 2.0▲131
One-stop search and recommendation engine for podcasts
2017 · its alternatives →
6NF
New, Fast, Anonymous, Tor-First Search Engine▲9
2019 · search4tor7txuze.onion · its alternatives →
7TS
Tor Search - A search engine for Tor▲9
2013 · kbhpodhnfxl3clb4.onion.to · its alternatives →
8TS
The Social Search Engine, A crowd-sourced, anonymous social search tool▲9
2021 · thesocialsearchengine.com · its alternatives →
9
Onty▲67
A connected MindMap for private sharing
2016 · onty.com · its alternatives →
10
Zif, peer-to-peer torrent indexing in Go▲9
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
11SF
Solve for All – customizable, private, hackable search engine▲7
2016 · solveforall.com · its alternatives →
12PS
Private Search – Decoupled identity and search, no Google/Bing▲5
2020 · private.sh · its alternatives →
13
DarkDarkGo – Distributed Search Engine for the Darknet▲5
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
14IB
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 →
15PC
Privacy conscious, discovery focused search engine – Whize (Alpha)▲6
2020 · alpha.whize.co · its alternatives →
16MO
Metarank – open-source hybrid search with LLMs▲7
A small demo for a Metarank open-source project I'm maintaining.
2023 · demo.metarank.ai · its alternatives →
17
JavaScript library for robust peer-to-peer browser networks with WebRTC▲7
A robust, minimal-server-interaction API for peer routing in the browser - Elijah-Bodden/Membrane
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
18
Sonar▲14
A linting tool for the web
2017 · its alternatives →
19BA
Built Anonymous Search Engine for Facebook Pages▲5
2013 · facebookpagesearch.apoorv.pro · its alternatives →
20
A distributed and persistent web crawler written in Go▲5
Cross-platform persistent and distributed web crawler :link: - schollz/linkcrawler
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
21EO
Enhanced, Open-Source Google Search for Hackers▲5
2016 · search.spince.com · its alternatives →
22
KeeNotes - a Privacy-First Personal Knowledgebase Tool▲8
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
23TP
TorrentNet – Peer-To-Peer Sites Using BitTorrent and SQLite▲5
2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →
24AT
A torrent search engine to search various public indexes▲8
All Bitcoin and cryptocurrency related news in one place!
2017 · snowfl.com · its alternatives →

Also compare

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →