Everyday apps
European search engines
Search the web through European operators
Replaces: Google Chrome · Google Search · Microsoft Bing · Yandex Search
A search engine lets you look for pages, images, news and files across the web. Behind the box sits either an index the company crawls and maintains itself, or results sourced from another index and presented with its own ranking and interface. The difference shows up in coverage, in how results are ranked, and in how much is built on advertising profiles.
Search queries say more about a person than most other data: health worries, job hunting, plans not yet shared with anyone. Mojeek runs an independent crawler and index. Qwant and Ecosia now co-develop the European Staan index, but both still supplement it with third-party sources, so index ownership belongs in the comparison.
European options
| service | Country | Hosting | Open source | Free plan | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Qwant |
 France |
EU hosted | — | ✓ | EU controlled |
 Ecosia |
 Germany |
— | ✓ | EU controlled | |
 metaGer |
Germany |
EU hosted | — | — | EU controlled |
| SearXNG |  Open source |
Self-hosted | ✓ | ✓ |
Qwant
Privacy focused search engine from France
Qwant is a search engine from France that says it does not store or sell user search data. It uses its own crawling and relies partly on Staan, the European index co-developed with Ecosia, while third-party indexing services including Microsoft Bing still supplement some results. There is also a separate search engine for children.
FranceEU hostedFree planEU controlled
Ecosia
Search engine from Germany that funds conservation
GermanyFree plan♻EU controlled
metaGer
German metasearch engine run by a non-profit
GermanyEU hosted♻EU controlledSelf-hosted and open source
Open source projects you can run yourself. Not necessarily made in Europe, but nobody else holds your data.
Services without verified European control
Kept here for transparency, but excluded from the European options and totals. How we classify services →
Mojeek
Independent search engine from the United Kingdom
United KingdomFree plan Ownership reviewed, controller unresolved
GOOD
Non-profit search engine from Germany
GermanyEU hosted♻ Ownership reviewed, controller unresolved
swisscows
Private search engine from Switzerland
SwitzerlandEFTA hostedFree plan Ownership reviewed, controller unresolved
