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24 alternatives to searx

A privacy-respecting, hackable 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. searx launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Peer-to-peer web search over the YaCy network▲5

   SearXNG — a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine

   19d ago · search.my-yacy-node.org · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Audiosear.ch 2.0▲131

   One-stop search and recommendation engine for podcasts

   2017 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   We made an open-source personalization engine▲284

   Hey, HN! You probably know that the ordering of products on Amazon, posts in FB, and search results in Google is personalized for each visitor, as it directly affects conversion, click rate and engagement. But not everyone can afford to hire an army of PhDs to squeeze every penny out of the ranking, and not everyone agrees on the current (im)balance between privacy and profits. So we built Metarank, an open-source and privacy-focused personalization engine. It can rerank in real-time any type of content, using only the data you allow, and optimize metrics you define. We made a lot of…

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Tesse▲99

   A new interactive search engine with people as results

   2017 · tesse.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Audiosear.ch▲198

   Full text search & discovery engine for podcasts

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   KeePassX▲83

   A cross-platform app for secure personal data management

   2017 · keepassx.org · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Epic Privacy Browser▲66

   A privacy-centric web browser

   2014 · epicbrowser.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Whaleslide▲6

   A search engine that protects your privacy

   2017 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Onty▲67

   A connected MindMap for private sharing

   2016 · onty.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    dotmos▲92

    A new web search, discovery and curation platform

    2015 · dotmos.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Anonysurfer▲102

    Surf the web with anonymous and private web proxies

    2014 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Leap.it▲76

    A visual search engine for the web

    2014 · leap.it · its alternatives →

13. 13
    HiveFlux▲68

    Real-time task management and planning

    2014 · hiveflux.com · its alternatives →

14. 14SF
    Solve for All – customizable, private, hackable search engine▲7

    2016 · solveforall.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Peekr▲66

    A game that asks: how valuable is your privacy to you?

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Universal Recommender▲75

    Open source recommendation engine on Spark + Elasticsearch

    2015 · templates.prediction.io · its alternatives →

17. 17NF
    New, Fast, Anonymous, Tor-First Search Engine▲9

    2019 · search4tor7txuze.onion · its alternatives →

18. 18WA
    Websurfx – A search engine that gets results from other search engines▲5

    2023 · programming.dev · its alternatives →

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    Sonar▲14

    A linting tool for the web

    2017 · its alternatives →

20. 20PC
    Privacy conscious, discovery focused search engine – Whize (Alpha)▲6

    2020 · alpha.whize.co · its alternatives →

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    Peekier▲7

    The most privacy-oriented search engine.

    2016 · kagi.com · its alternatives →

22. 22TS
    The Social Search Engine, A crowd-sourced, anonymous social search tool▲9

    2021 · thesocialsearchengine.com · its alternatives →

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    Mirage▲8

    An interactive query explorer for Elasticsearch

    2016 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →

24. 24TS
    Tor Search - A search engine for Tor▲9

    2013 · kbhpodhnfxl3clb4.onion.to · its alternatives →

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