# Best alternative search engine option that actually works?

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/best-alternative-search-engine-option-that-actually-works/38106
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2026-05-24T01:10:55Z
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## Post 9 by @pine — 2026-05-24T11:54:41Z

I assume you’ve already read PGs recommendations (as @seize linked earlier), so here’s two recent threads about alternative privacy-oriented search engines, specifially PriEco and Hister (though I personally have experience with neither).

> [@PriEco: New open source web search engine](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/prieco-new-open-source-web-search-engine/12611):
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> Introducing PriEco: New private and eco-friendly web search engine! Edit: New dedicated URL is: [https://prieco.net/](https://prieco.net/)Edit 2: Updated information start from [PriEco: New open source web search engine - #41 by JojoYou](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/prieco-new-open-source-web-search-engine/12611/41) PriEco ([https://search.jojoyou.org](https://search.jojoyou.org)) is a result of my work to create a fully private search engine that also promotes ecological values. Privacy Highlights: PriEco never tracks or profiles you. It’s open source: [https://codeberg.org/JojoYou/PriEco/](https://codeberg.org/JojoYou/PriEco/) with AGPL v3 or later license: [--…](https://codeberg.org/JojoYou/PriEco/src/branch/master/LICENCE)

> [@Hister: A free & self-hosted personal search engine](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/hister-a-free-self-hosted-personal-search-engine/37668):
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> I’m working on a self-hosted search service called [Hister](https://hister.org/) with the goal to reduce dependence on online search engines. It can provide significantly more [privacy](https://hister.org/posts/hister-the-most-privacy-respecting-search-engine) than metasearch engines like Searx. Hister is a full text indexer for websites and local files which automatically saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It has a flexible web (and terminal) search interface, offline result previews & query language to explore saved content with ease or quickly fall back to traditional se…

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