Qwant is a French search engine that says it neither stores users' search history nor sells their personal data. Its results come partly from Staan, the European search index Qwant develops together with Ecosia through the joint venture European Search Perspective, and partly from Microsoft Bing. Qwant also offers Qwant Junior, a separate search engine for children.
European alternatives to Microsoft Bing
Microsoft Bing is the second-largest search engine in the world after Google Search. Besides Bing itself, many alternative search engines use its results in the background, including Yahoo! and DuckDuckGo.
This pages lists European Microsoft Bing alternatives from companies based in a member state of the European Union (EU) or the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
Ecosia is a German search engine with a focus on climate protection. The company is steward-owned and says it puts all of its profits, which come mainly from search advertising, into climate projects such as tree planting and renewable energy.
Its results come from Staan, the European search index Ecosia builds with Qwant, as well as from Microsoft Bing and Google.
Mojeek is a privacy-focused search engine with its own web crawler, search index and ranking algorithm. According to its privacy policy, Mojeek does not track users, so searches are not linked to individuals. Mojeek runs its own servers in a UK data centre that uses renewable energy.
GOOD is a non-profit search engine from Germany. Its web results come from the independent search index of Brave. Since November 2024 the search has been ad-free and is financed by subscriptions. All shares of the company are held by the charitable foundation GOOD Impact, and the company is B Corp certified. GOOD was called gexsi until a rebranding in 2022.
swisscows is a Swiss search engine with a focus on privacy and family friendliness, as they try to prevent explicit content. swisscows uses the Bing search index, but also a self-made one.
Metager is a German metasearch that combines search results from other providers. It is a non-profit association, the source code is open, and the servers run on green electricity. Metager also advertises high privacy.