Swisscows is a Swiss alternative to Bing and DuckDuckGo for web search.
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- Headquarters
- Switzerland
- Open source
- No
- Free plan
- Yes
Search with a Swiss, family-safe engine, its own index, anonymous preview and an optional fully anonymous Pro mode.
Swiss family-safe search engine combining its own index with Brave results, optional anonymous preview and a paid ad-free Pro mode.
Swisscows is a Swiss privacy-first search engine positioned as "Europe's answer to Google." It operates its own search index (built from 20+ years of search-technology research) and adds no tracking, no IP logging, and no user profiling. A family-friendly filter for adult content is enabled by default.
Beyond search, Swisscows has built an entire privacy ecosystem: Swisscows.VPN for encrypted browsing, Swisscows.email for private email, TeleGuard for encrypted messaging, and EdelCloud for secure file storage. A partnership with Brave supplements the core search index on certain queries.
Free search is ad-supported through Brave/System1, while Swisscows Pro offers completely anonymous queries with no data retention. All servers sit in Switzerland under Swiss data protection law (which is stricter than GDPR in several respects), making Swisscows particularly attractive to users who want an alternative to DuckDuckGo or Startpage that isn't US-based and maintains independence from Bing and Google infrastructure.
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