It is no more news that search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo take a record of your internet search activities. These search engines track your search history and the data gathered from it could be sold to advertisers who tailor ads based on your interest and preferences.

Recently evidence has emerged that National Security Agency NSA snoops on data collected by search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing and this has lead to a spike in traffic for private search engines. Private search engines do not track your online activities or collect any data like some major search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.

With private search engines you are protected from NSA surveillance and spying or selling your private data to advertisers for their advertisement campaigns. In this article I want to introduce you to some private search engines that respect your privacy.

These private search engines don’t track your activities, does not store your IP address, record your searches and protects you from NSA surveillance and spying. Below is my curated list of private search engines.

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Owner 6 items 5 followers 0 votes 1.44k views Private Search Engines that respect your Privacy Listly by Jennifer Mavtrevor Wilson This is a list of Private Search Engines that respect your Privacy. Source: http://www.netmediablog.com/private-search-engines-respect-privacy Follow List Embed List 1 Search DuckDuckGo Jan 26, 2014 - duckduckgo.com - 174 Search anonymously. Find instantly. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that does not track you and, has more instant answers and less spam/clutter. 2 Startpage Web Search Jan 26, 2014 - startpage.com - 186 Your IP address is never recorded, your visit is not logged, and no tracking cookies are placed on your browser. When it comes to protecting your privacy, Startpage runs the tightest ship on the Internet. Our outstanding privacy policy and thoughtful engineering give you great search results in total anonymity. 3 Ixquick Search Engine Jan 26, 2014 - ixquick.com - 189 Ixquick search engine provides search results from over ten best search engines in full privacy. Search anonymously with Ixquick Search Engine! 4 blekko | search Jan 26, 2014 - blekko.com - 197 blekko | One of the Top Spam and Virus Free Search Engine for Latest Updates on News, Gossips, Date and Much More 5 Privatelee - private search engine Jan 26, 2014 - privatelee.com - 174 The most private and secure (https available) search engine. Privatelee returns the best results from the top search engines. Privatelee offers many unique features like infinite scrolling web and image results. 6 Qrobe - private search engine Jan 26, 2014 - qrobe.it - 170 Feature rich private search engine. Qrobe combines the best results and functionality from the top search engines so you always get the best results.

If you have privacy concerns about Google, Bing and Yahoo you may consider using any of these private search engines. With these search engines your search activities remains private, your IP address and geographical location are not recorded, no tracking cookies are used.

The good thing is that some of these private search engines actually use Google for their searches but acts as intermediary to protect your privacy. When you use these private search engines to search for something, it stripes your query of all identifying information and submits it to Google anonymously, and relays the result to you through their own search result page.

Do you know of other private search engines? Do you use private search engines? Which of the listed private search engines have you used? Let me hear your views on private search engines and the privacy concerns of search engine users. Remember to subscribe to my blog.