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.

Article from Seirdy which is the most comprehensive look at the search engine scene in general and search engines with their own indexes in particular. If you want to find out about existing and up-coming web search engines, this is the place to start.

A new, smaller search engine which seems to have good results.

The Web's Oldest Search Engine - Est. 1993. Still works but has many dead links. Included to show what a search engine from 1997 looked like.

Article lists privacy respecting search engines.

General web search engine. What makes this different is you can ask natural language questions, type a website name or use keywords. It is not clear where the search index comes from.

Blog search engine.

Real-Time Search Engine. Startup. Small. Beta. Has add URL.

A privacy respecting general web search engine from the people who gave us the Brave Web Browser. Brave search engine is available to everyone, you do not need to be using the Brave browser to access it.

Brave search has it's own index of sites but also uses results from Bing when it detects that it's own index may not be enough. Brave Search is quite good for day to day searching but not as good for deep research and long tail searches.

Startup search engine. Beta. Has add URL.

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.

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.