MetaGer

Nonprofit German metasearch with a built-in anonymizing proxy.

metager.org
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Price
PaidPaid only. You buy token credit for an anonymous key, with no account or email. MetaGer says about 500 tokens (€5) usually lasts around two months. Members of SUMA-EV, the nonprofit that runs MetaGer, can search with their membership instead.
Works on
Web
Based in
Germany
Source code
Open source

MetaGer comes from SUMA-EV, a German nonprofit working with the University of Hannover. There are no shareholders pulling at it. It queries several engines and merges the results. The code is open source under the AGPL. A built-in proxy can open a result without exposing you to the site. Since September 2024 it is paid only. You buy credit for an anonymous key that needs no account or email. It rides other engines rather than its own index.

Strengths

  • Run by a nonprofit (SUMA-EV), with no shareholders
  • Open source under the AGPL
  • Anonymizing proxy to open results privately
  • Runs on renewable energy

Considerations

  • Relies on upstream engines, not its own index
  • Paid only since September 2024, with no free tier; search needs a prepaid key or a SUMA-EV membership
Listed inSearch Engines

MetaGer alternatives

Brave SearchPrivate search on its own independent index, not Google or Bing.StartpageGoogle results with the tracking stripped out, from the Netherlands.DuckDuckGoThe mainstream privacy search, with results mainly from Bing.MojeekIndependent search on its own crawler and index, from the UK.