# Open-source search engines

7 open-source search engines rated against public privacy criteria.

1. [4get](https://privacyratings.com/search-engines/4get/): B (88/100). Open-source metasearch engine and proxy that fetches results from other search engines and strips tracking, usable at 4get.ca or other public instances or self-hosted.
2. [SearXNG](https://privacyratings.com/search-engines/searxng/): B (88/100). Free, open-source metasearch engine that combines results from many search services without storing information about its users. It can be self-hosted or used through public instances.
3. [YaCy](https://privacyratings.com/search-engines/yacy/): B (88/100). Free search engine software that users run themselves, either as a personal or intranet search portal with its own crawler, or as a peer in a decentralized network that shares a web index.
4. [PriEco](https://privacyratings.com/search-engines/prieco/): B (75/100). Open-source web search engine written in Rust that combines its own index with results from other sources and supports result customization through Goggles.
5. [MetaGer](https://privacyratings.com/search-engines/metager/): C (73/100). Open-source metasearch engine run by the German non-profit SUMA-EV that combines results from several search providers, paid for with a prepaid anonymous key, and includes an anonymizing proxy for opening results.
6. [Marginalia Search](https://privacyratings.com/search-engines/marginalia-search/): C (70/100). Independent open-source search engine from Sweden with its own crawler and index, focused on finding small, non-commercial and text-heavy websites.
7. [Mwmbl](https://privacyratings.com/search-engines/mwmbl/): C (70/100). Non-profit, open-source search engine with its own community-crawled index, where signed-in users can help curate search results.

Source: https://privacyratings.com/open-source/search-engines/