Explainer: Avoid Google's spying! These search engines take full care of your privacy..

If you search for anything on the internet, you start seeing advertisements related to it everywhere. Most of the big search engines start showing you advertisements by tracking your search, your location, and your clicks. Due to this tracking by search engines, many people are troubled, and the only thing that comes to their mind is that 'once you search, ads start following you'. For most people, a search engine means Google or its alternative, Bing.

Google tracks your activity for targeted ads, but apart from these two giants in the case of search engines, there are many other search engines that are designed keeping in mind the privacy of people. The special thing about these search engines is that anything searched on them does not become a part of any advertising business.

DuckDuckGo
The motto of DuckDuckGo is 'Privacy, Simplified'. The special thing about this search engine is that it neither stores your personal information nor tracks your queries. The company says that apps and browsers have a tracker protection feature to prevent third-party tracking.

Swisscows
The special thing about the Swisscows search engine is that it calls itself a no-tracking engine. It works on its own search index and claims to collaborate with Brave for the quality of search results. You may see ads on this search engine because it funds itself from advertising provided by Bing, but at the same time, the company also emphasizes that the user's personal data is not shared with Ad Partners.

Brave Search
Brave Search works on its own web index, so it does not depend on Google or Bing for most queries. This is the reason why this search engine avoids tracking users. The option on Brave also gives the option of Privacy Preserving Web Discovery Project, through which you can contribute data to improve the index, but this will be possible only when you opt for it. The special thing about this search engine is that you can use Brave Search in any browser.

Brave Search Engine

In this search engine, you will also get the facility of Answers with AI, like Google AI Mode. If you want information through AI, then enter your query in the search bar and then click on the star-like icon appearing with the search icon. AI will provide you with detailed information about your query.

Startpage
The special thing about this search engine is that the Anonymous View feature available in it helps in maintaining your online privacy. The company says that the search history of users is never saved and neither do we sell the search history of users.

Starpage Search Engine

Startpage shows you Google search results using its own personal data protection technology. Apart from this, for better privacy of the users, the company says that the IP address of the user is also removed from all our global servers. To ensure that you don't see ads related to your search results after your search, the company says that we don't let third parties access your personal data.

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