startpage 

 Start page is great, especially the “anonymous view” option. 

 Never used this. What's it for? 

 It’s a feature within Startpage. Anonymous view kinda acts like a VPN. It opens the website through a “shield” that blocks trackers, fingerprints, and provides a secure HTTPS connection. 

 Brave 

 Isn’t that a web browser? I’m looking for a search engine, not a web browser. 

 They have a own search engine iirc 

 Searx 

 local ai. 

 brave search. adding privacy and non-censorability (!) to DuckDuckGo, as well as allowing to search through photos/news/etc with JavaScript turned off (Tor's safest mode — recommended! JavaScript might be a dangerous crap) 

 #Stract. Fully #opensource. Independent index. Customisable. Beta!