Alternative Search Engines

Users discuss frustrations with Google and mainstream search engines, calling for better alternatives focused on privacy, the small web, discovery, and unique indexing, while sharing examples like Brave, Kagi, Searx, and new projects.

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Sample Comments

casey2 Mar 24, 2024 View on HN

Is there a search engine for search engines yet?

zavkz Jan 4, 2022 View on HN

How about a search engine that does this already?

bb123 Apr 6, 2020 View on HN

Is there anything I can do as a user of the web about this? Is there a search engine out there that is better for these things than Google?

Kinrany Jul 19, 2020 View on HN

Having a better alternative to search engines would be great.

djbusby Oct 31, 2024 View on HN

Opportunity for a new discovery engine. Not Kagi (I buy it) but a search focused on the small web, find stuff not in the top 100k sites.

swiley Feb 14, 2016 View on HN

Perhaps a community maintained search engine?

thorwasdfasdf Aug 12, 2019 View on HN

Sounds like we need a new search engine, a better search engine. One that returns the things you're actually searching for.

ricardo81 Oct 19, 2022 View on HN

Good overview of search alternatives here https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...

edoceo Mar 22, 2021 View on HN

Now I'm waiting for your Show HN curated list of alternative search engines

Yep, you just described a search engine!