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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: Not stated
Online since
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.com

Wikidata: search engine by Google LLC

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: First copy 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 16 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: OneTrust

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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Google

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

None of the 60 sites closest to Google match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 · 7 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,216
Vector: 384-d
Query: 86 ms

Built with

Cookie consent: OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=6d685f1d41a94696ad7ef771f68993e0
Web servers: Google Web Server header server: gws
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=30afIBcvSuDV2PLX
DocuSign TXT docusign=1b0a6754-49b1-4db5-8540-d2c12664b289
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=wD8N7i1JTNTkezJ49swvWW48f8_9xveREV4oB-0Hf5o
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=22rm551cu4k0ab0bxsw536tlds4h95

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What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.