Swisscows – European search engine
Swiss search engine founded in 2014 by Andreas Wiebe, hosted in a high-security data center in a former military bunker in the Swiss Alps. No IP logging, no tracking cookies, no user profiling. Family-friendly content filtering built in by default.
Quick facts
Why does it score 93?
Swisscows is legally domiciled in Switzerland, an EFTA country rather than a full EU member state.
Swisscows AG is bootstrapped with no venture capital.
Swisscows hosts its servers in a former Swiss military bunker in the Alps.
Swisscows isn't open source and draws its search index from Bing rather than a fully independent source. It doesn't track users and applies family-friendly filtering by default.
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