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Whoogle Search

Self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting Google search proxy

Search Engines Archived ★ 11.6k stars Easy setup MIT

This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained search engines alternative.

Whoogle Search is a lightweight, self-hosted metasearch engine that returns Google results without ads, JavaScript, tracking or cookies. It offers a clean, minimal interface focused on privacy.

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Key features

  • Ad-free Google results
  • No JavaScript or tracking
  • Custom theming and config
  • Works as a browser search engine

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Very lightweight
  • Clean minimal results

Trade-offs

  • Depends on scraping Google

Is Whoogle Search secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Whoogle Search's latest release (v1.2.4). OSV.dev lists 11 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2024-53305, published 2025-04-16 (546 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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