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!Name
!Name
!Notes
!Open Source?
!Open Source?
!Country of origin  
!Country of origin  
!Notes
|-
|-
|[https://search.brave.com Brave Search]
|[https://search.brave.com Brave Search]
|Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
|No
|No
|USA
|USA
|Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
|-
|-
|[https://www.presearch.org Presearch]
|[https://www.presearch.org Presearch]
|Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
|Yes<ref>https://presearch.org/about</ref>
|Yes<ref>https://presearch.org/about</ref>
|USA
|USA
|Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
|-
|-
|[http://yandex.com Yandex]
|[http://yandex.com Yandex]
|Russian company, helps to circumvent Western propaganda
|No
|No
|Russia
|Russia
|Russian company, helps to circumvent Western propaganda
|-
|-
|DuckDuckGo
|DuckDuckGo
|Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
|No
|No
|USA
|USA
|Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Richard Medhurst]]|date=2022-03-14|title=Bye Bye Freedom: DuckDuckGo Censors Russian Search Results|url=https://youtu.be/ZXcyymRpE3g}}</ref>
|-
|-
|Google Search
|Google Search
|No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state
|No
|No
|USA
|USA
|No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state
|}
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== References ==

Revision as of 02:21, 15 March 2022

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]

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 own neutrality and began censoring Russian news outlets.[3][4]

In response, Brave Search and Presearch announced that they will refuse to censor search results.[5]

Alternative search engines
Name Open Source? Country of origin Notes
Brave Search No USA Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
Presearch Yes[6] USA Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
Yandex No Russia Russian company, helps to circumvent Western propaganda
DuckDuckGo No USA Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets[2][4][7]
Google Search No USA No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state

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