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In my opinion, the only reason it would make sense to use Yahoo is if you’re already using their other services like News, Finance, or Sport. Yahoo’s search results are decent, but the UI leaves a lot to be desired. If you’re concerned about privacy, Ecosia is probably not the best choice.Īds are not marked clearly, and the only way you can tell is the barely noticeable divider. You can also choose to disable this feature by modifying your user settings.” If your browser has “Do Not Track” enabled, we disable the “Client ID” automatically. Here’s what Ecosia says: when you do a search on Ecosia we forward the following information to our partner, Bing: IP address, user agent string, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting.Īdditionally, by default Ecosia sets a Bing-specific “Client ID” parameter to improve the quality of your search results. Only after seven days is all personal information (e.g., IP addresses) deleted.Īdditionally, since Bing powers their search results, they share some details with them to answer your search request. This data, according to them, is used for improving their web services. However, if you read their privacy policy, you’ll find that they’re not that privacy-oriented.įirstly, they collect search data. How private is it?Įcosia claims to be a private search engine. I found results from Ecosia to be good enough most of the time. It’s also built a solar plant so it can run servers on clean power.Įcosia’s search results are powered by Bing and enhanced by its own algorithms. It donates 80% of its profits to tree-planting projects, roughly equating to one tree planted for every 50 searches. The company behind Ecosia wants to counteract this. See how much CO2 is generated per second by Google. repeatedly conducts mass surveillance programs and collects data from various Internet companies (e.g., PRISM and MUSCULAR). Privacy-oriented users may also point to the fact that the U.S. That said, DDG is based in the U.S., which means it’s part of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. However, it does save searches, though it claims to do it in a non-identifiable way. How private is it?Īccording to DuckDuckGo, it does not store personally identifiable information like IP addresses. Yet, a similar search in Google showed results about flooding in the city. Wanting to know what happened, I searched for “venice” in DuckDuckGo but didn’t see any relevant results.

I recognized the background of the video as Venice (Italy). This might be an unpopular opinion, but I thought DuckDuckGo’s search results were good but not exceptional.įor instance, I was recently browsing Facebook and saw a video of a man bailing water away from a flooded street. Possibly the most popular private search engine, DuckDuckGo ( DDG) has positioned itself as “anti-Google” since its launch in 2008.ĭuckDuckGo sources its results from over 400 different places, including its own crawler (DuckDuckBot), crowdsourced sites (e.g., Wikipedia), and partners (e.g., Bing).

This shares mass surveillance data with eight countries, including those notorious for privacy violations like the US and UK. However, you should know that the Netherlands is a part of the Nine Eyes intelligence alliance. As a result, it complies with the GDPR-an EU regulation that protects users’ data. Privacy-oriented users may also take comfort in the fact that StartPage is based in the Netherlands, which is part of the European Union ( EU). We send the anonymized search query to Google and return the search results to you. When you search, your query is automatically stripped of unnecessary metadata including your IP address and other identifying information. Here’s an excerpt from their privacy policy: But since it uses Google’s results, how do we know it doesn’t send information to Google? StartPage doesn’t record your IP address, and it doesn’t serve tracking cookies. Why? StartPage exclusively uses results from Google, so it’s effectively Google without the tracking. Of all the search engines I tested, this is my top pick.