List of Private Search Engines for 2020
If you’ve set a goal of protecting your privacy in 2020, these search engines are a good starting point.
1. DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is the most popular private search engine. It recently passed 50 million daily searches. DuckDuckGo’s main value proposition is that it doesn’t track you and use that information to serve targeted advertisements on other websites you visit.
2. Startpage
Startpage, established in 2000, is one of the oldest private search engines on the internet, originally known as Ixquick. One thing that sets Startpage apart from other private search engines is that it gets its results from Google. Startpage returns Google results anonymously without the tracking that is otherwise associated with Google’s products.
Note: Startpage was recently acquired by System1, which is a company specializing in targeted advertising. Some privacy advocates find this concerning, but Startpage’s privacy features remain intact.
3. Ghostpeek
Ghostpeek is a new private search engine that’s main value is using local encryption to hide your searches in your browser’s history or in your URL. Its privacy-protection also delivers the benefit of not tracking your searches and selling that information to…
