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Who runs Google, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web search engine alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Part of google.com
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Yandex

Measured from Google’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Google

Google google.ca

Wikidata: search engine by Google LLC

Company: No imprint we could read
Part of: google.com Runs this domain’s DNS
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In German

02 · Privacy

What Google tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.

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Cookie banner: None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Google’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Google

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Google, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in German

1 of the 60 sites closest to Google matches.

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Very close

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Google’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Google uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Google adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 2 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,214
Vector: 384-d
Query: 89 ms

Built with

Web servers: Google Web Server header server: gws
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com

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What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.