13 Privacy-Focused, Alternative Search Engines to Google

To answer this question, we researched a few popular alternative search engines. According to the Netherlands-based search engine, your queries are anonymized before search results are pulled from Google. DuckDuckGoDuckDuckGo is easily the most well-known private search engine around—and the antithesis to Google when it comes to favoring user privacy. QwantQwant is a Paris-based search engine whose search results are powered by Bing and its own web crawler. Search is free, so search engines have to make money via advertising.