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. Private Search – Decoupled identity and search, no Google/Bing launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Hiding from the Internet▲72

   Eliminating personal online information

   2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →

2. 2SF
   Solve for All – customizable, private, hackable search engine▲7

   2016 · solveforall.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Anonysurfer▲102

   Surf the web with anonymous and private web proxies

   2014 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Tesse▲99

   A new interactive search engine with people as results

   2017 · tesse.io · its alternatives →

5. 5UM
   Unskew My Search, a web extension for peaking into the Google black box▲6

   2020 · unskewmysearch.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   searx▲82

   A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

   2016 · its alternatives →

7. 7NF
   New, Fast, Anonymous, Tor-First Search Engine▲9

   2019 · search4tor7txuze.onion · its alternatives →

8. 8BA
   Built a small search engine without the fluff▲6

   2024 · kgrep.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Re/code Decode - Y Combinator's Sam Altman▲92

   and the internet of things and Google

   2015 · serve.castfire.com · its alternatives →

10. 10BA
    Built Anonymous Search Engine for Facebook Pages▲5

    2013 · facebookpagesearch.apoorv.pro · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Peer-to-peer web search over the YaCy network▲5

    SearXNG — a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine

    15d ago · search.my-yacy-node.org · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Nool Quest▲22

    Google, but respects your privacy

    2025 · its alternatives →

13. 13PC
    Privacy conscious, discovery focused search engine – Whize (Alpha)▲6

    2020 · alpha.whize.co · its alternatives →

14. 14
    PureSearch▲2

    Search the web, minus the AI slop

    Apr 2026 · puresearch.rork.app · its alternatives →

15. 15EO
    Enhanced, Open-Source Google Search for Hackers▲5

    2016 · search.spince.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Dribper▲6

    The search engine that does not collect any personal informa

    2016 · its alternatives →

17. 17AM
    Anonymous Mode, an experiment with anonymity on Facebook▲9

    2011 · anonymousmode.com · its alternatives →

18. 18TS
    The Social Search Engine, A crowd-sourced, anonymous social search tool▲9

    2021 · thesocialsearchengine.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    GoGoPrivate V2▲7

    Anonymous Private Search

    2022 · gogoprivate.com · its alternatives →

20. 20IB
    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 →

21. 21
    Track Me Not▲5

    Hide your web searches in a cloud of false leads.

    2017 · its alternatives →

22. 22PT
    Privera – The Analytics' Anonymization Proxy▲5

    2021 · privera.io · its alternatives →

23. 23PB
    PrivacyAngel – Better protect your privacy online▲7

    2018 · privacyangel.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    The Best Private Search Engines - Alternatives to Google▲9

    Private Search Engines that Don't Track Users Information

    2018 · hackernoon.com · its alternatives →

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