Uruky
A paid, EU-based search engine with no ads, no tracking and no algorithms — you pay €5/month and it doesn't sell or profile your searches.
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Description
Free search engines make their money from watching what you search for and selling that attention to advertisers — that's the trade most people don't realize they're making every time they type a query. Uruky flips the deal: you pay a small monthly fee, and in exchange it doesn't track you, doesn't show ads, doesn't store your searches tied to your identity, and even assigns your account a random number instead of a name. If you've ever wanted a search engine that treats "you're the customer" literally instead of "you're the product," that's the pitch.
Under the hood, Uruky is EU-based (servers and payment processing in the EU) and aggregates results from several independent search indexes (including Marginalia, Mojeek and EUSP) rather than licensing Google or Bing. It lets you customize results by boosting or excluding specific domains, explicitly avoids AI-generated summaries in favor of direct source results, and — notably for a small indie product — promises customers source code access after 12 months of continuous payment. It costs €5/month for unlimited searches with a 14-day money-back guarantee, and independent 2026 reviews confirm it's operational and hold up reasonably well against Kagi and Google on relevance.
💬 Our review
The short version: Uruky is a legitimate, small, EU-based paid search engine for people who've decided that avoiding ad-supported search tracking is worth €5/month, and its no-AI-summary, source-aggregation approach makes it a genuine alternative rather than a Google reskin.
Against Kagi, the closest comparable (also paid, also privacy-first), Uruky is cheaper — Kagi starts around $10-25/month depending on tier — but Kagi has more index sources, more polish, and a larger track record. Against DuckDuckGo, which is free, Uruky's actual differentiator is that DuckDuckGo still runs on licensed Bing results and ad revenue in places, while Uruky is subscriber-funded end to end with a smaller, more independent index. The honest caveat: a small indie team means slower feature velocity, a smaller result index than Google-scale engines, and support that won't match a large company's. For someone who's already decided ad-free, tracking-free search is worth paying for, Uruky is a reasonable, EU-flavored pick at a lower price than the market leader; for someone just curious, DuckDuckGo's free tier is the lower-commitment first step.
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🤖 AI-enriched data
5€/mois pour recherches illimitées, garantie remboursement 14 jours. Pas de palier gratuit permanent.
Pros
Zéro pub, zéro tracking, comptes anonymisés par numéro
Moins cher que Kagi pour un positionnement similaire (recherche payante sans pub)
Personnalisation des résultats (exclusion/boost de domaines), refus des résumés IA
Cons
Aucun palier gratuit illimité, abonnement obligatoire
Index plus restreint qu'un moteur à l'échelle Google
Petite équipe indie, vélocité de fonctionnalités plus lente