Let’s tell you the best European alternatives to Google and Bing. If you are looking for greater privacy and protection when searching on the Internet, choosing a trusted European provider ensures that they are subject to strict European privacy regulations.
In total, we bring you six alternatives, which offer greater privacy and security. Some are environmental or non-profit organizations, others are paid, and there are even some open source.
Ecosia
It is possibly the most popular European search engine, and is known for your climate mission; since its advertising revenue is used to finance reforestation projects. Ecosia promises to respect your privacy as much as the planet, and only collects the data necessary to offer a quality product. Nothing else.
This search engine has an AI search function with smaller, faster models to use less energy while offering accurate answers, all based on some renewable energies with which they feed both their search engine and their AI. Your search results come from Bing or Google, depending on your location, device type, or your preferences.
Startpage
Startpage is possibly one of the best alternatives to Google, although it is not completely European. It was founded in 2006 in the Netherlands, where its headquarters are still located, although it is a global company. However, having a European headquarters they promise that their users are protected by European privacy lawsincluding the GDPR.
This search engine claims to be the most private in the world, including free anonymous viewing. The search results are from the Google engine, but they pass through their own data protection filter that remove users IPblock price trackers and third-party access to ads.
Qwant
A French search engine, which stands out for your commitment to privacy and not store or sell any type of data about you. Its results index is generated with Bing, although it also adds its own index to the algorithm to improve it. There is nothing from Google.
Qwant also has a search engine called Qwant Junior, which adapts its results to the little ones in the house. So that you don’t miss anything if you migrate from Google, it has a partner called Shadow Drive, which offers private cloud storage hosted in Europe.
good
Good is a non-profit search engine created in Germany. All of its proceeds are donated to charities and other non-profit organizations that have a B Corp certification. Additionally, it is a search engine private and anonymouswithout histories, fingerprints or tracking.
For its search results it does not use Bing or Google, but rather uses Brave search engine index. It is CO2 neutral, and has no advertising, nothing. In fact, the way they are maintained is through a voluntary subscription system of 2 euros per month or 19 per year for those who want to support it.
Another German search engine, which combines search results from other providers. It is open sourceso that everyone can know how it works, their servers are maintained with renewable energy, and they are a non-profit organization.
The most positive part is that they are a search engine committed to privacy and no ads. The negative part is that it is paid. Each search costs one token, and you can buy several packs which start at 500 tokens for 5 euros.
Swisscows
A Swiss search engine privacy focused and family character. For the latter, it has filters with which it tries to avoid explicit content. For its results it uses Bing’s search index combining it with one of its own.
It has two modes, one free and one paid that for $3.80 per month offers total anonymity, zero advertising and exclusive search settings. Therefore, total anonymity is not free as in other models. It also has additional services such as mail, instant messenger, cloud and VPN.
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