Using a private search engine is critical if you want to keep your private data secure. Here are the best private search engines for 2020.

This is the best, deepest of all the privacy search engine lists I have encountered. Worth reading. It seems to get updated annually.

The Web's Oldest Search Engine - Est. 1993. Still works.

Article lists privacy respecting search engines.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs. A hybrid search engine deriving it's results from Bing, Yandex (maybe Yahoo) and several hundred smaller providers. Duckduckgo does not track your searches and keeps no record of you. (Recommended)

A powerful, new search engine that does real-time indexing. Based on open source code, Gigablast is one of the few search engines with it's own unique index and crawler.

Gowiki is the search engine that respects your privacy. Search the web, read the news and explore the world. Gowiki is building it's own index of the web. Add URL.

Self-hostable search engine with support for decentralized results. The code can be found at https://gitlab.com/infinitysearch/infinity-decentralized.

Infinity Search is a paid search engine that has its own indexes, is customizable, and doesn't have any ads or tracking.

A search engine that lets you peel back layers of popularity to get to the less popular web pages.

Independent, alternative, and unbiased search results with no user tracking. Mojeek is one of the few search engines that maintains and uses their own search index created with thier own crawler. There are also UK, German and French versions of this search engine.

A new commercial search engine reputed to be from Huawei that appears to have it's own crawler and index.

A new search engine building it's own index. While it builds a sufficiently large index it is using a backfill from one of the major search engines.

A privacy search engine which uses Bing as the backbone of their search results. They have their own crawler and may be building their own search index.

A new web search engine that is building it's own index of sites.