MetaGer – European search engine
A privacy-focused metasearch engine run by the German non-profit association SUMA-EV. It blends results from multiple sources, hides your IP behind an anonymising proxy, and is open source. No profiling, no ad-tracking.
Quick facts
The anonymising proxy lets you open a search result without that site ever seeing your real IP address, and results blend several independent sources rather than reflecting just one company's index.
Result quality is a blend from multiple sources rather than a single strong index, so obscure or highly specific queries can come back thinner than on Google.
Why does it score 97?
Incorporated in Hanover, Germany – a full EU member state.
Run by SUMA-EV, a German non-profit association funded by memberships and donations rather than investors.
MetaGer runs its own infrastructure in Germany, including an anonymising proxy that hides your IP from the sites you visit.
Fully open source and GDPR-compliant – a non-profit search engine with nothing commercial steering its incentives.
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