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# Search Engine
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A search engine is a software that searches and finds web pages given a search
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term.
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Search engines are usually set as the start page of a
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[web browser](/wiki/web_browser.md).
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## Engine Providers
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There are various search engines that can be used.
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- [Google](https://www.google.com/) is the most used search engine in the world.
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Despite that being the case it has questionable privacy standards.
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- [DuckDuckGo](https://duckduckgo.com/) is a privacy oriented search engine.
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For that reason it does not feature personalized search results.
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- [Whoogle](/wiki/whoogle.md) is a free metasearch engine that can be
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self-hosted.
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It uses the general layout of the Google search engine.
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- [Searx](/wiki/searx.md) is a free metasearch engine that can be self-hosted.
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