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A search engine allows internet users to find information based on queries, usually text queries. Google Search is the most used search engine,[1] but it is heavily censored and manipulated by the imperialist United States.[2]

Comparisons

Name Open Source? Country of origin Notes
Brave Search No USA Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
Presearch Yes[3] USA Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
Searx Yes[4] Variety A meta search engine (pulls data from others) which has several instances across the world.
Baidu No China Chinese company, mostly only Chinese-language websites are indexed
Yandex No Russia Russian company, helps to circumvent Western propaganda
DuckDuckGo No USA Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets[5][6]
Google Search No USA No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state[2]

History

DuckDuckGo was founded in 2008 as a privacy-focused competitor to popular search engines such as Google Search. For a time it maintained a reputation helping to circumvent censorship, but following the 2022 Russo-Ukraine conflict, DuckDuckGo violated its public posture of neutrality and began censoring Russian news outlets.[7][5]

In response, Brave Search and Presearch announced that they will refuse to censor search results.[8]

References