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    "products": [
        {
            "slug": "google-search",
            "name": "Google Search",
            "kind": "web",
            "website": "https://www.google.com/",
            "page": "https://listme.name/software/google-search",
            "tagline": "Web search with images, maps, news and AI Mode",
            "summary": "Google Search is the search engine from Google, free to use in any web browser. It returns web pages with images, maps, news and video results, and it offers AI Mode for longer answers.",
            "developer": "Google",
            "platforms": [
                "web",
                "ios",
                "android"
            ],
            "pricing": "free",
            "price_note": "Free to use; funded by advertising",
            "free_to_use": true,
            "open_source": false,
            "strengths": [
                "Broad coverage across web, images, news and maps",
                "Free to use without an account for basic searches",
                "AI Mode for longer answers"
            ],
            "limits": [
                "Results depend on location and account settings",
                "Tied to Google's advertising and account services"
            ],
            "checked": "2026-10-10",
            "connected_to_publisher": false,
            "overview": "Google Search covers web pages, images, news, maps and videos from one search box, and it offers AI Mode for conversational answers. Results can depend on location and on account settings, which users can review in their account.\n\nGoogle Search is the default search in Chrome and in many other products, so it is the reference point for comparing the engines in this list. It does not promise the privacy-first design of DuckDuckGo or Brave Search, because search is tied to Google's advertising and account services."
        },
        {
            "slug": "metager",
            "name": "MetaGer",
            "kind": "web",
            "website": "https://metager.org/",
            "page": "https://listme.name/software/metager",
            "tagline": "Nonprofit, ad-free metasearch engine with MIT-licensed source",
            "summary": "MetaGer is an ad-free metasearch engine developed and run by the nonprofit organization SUMA-EV. It says it has no ads, no tracking and no logging, and its source code is on GitLab under the MIT license.",
            "developer": "SUMA-EV",
            "platforms": [
                "web"
            ],
            "pricing": "open-source",
            "price_note": "Free search with no account needed; source on GitLab under MIT",
            "free_to_use": true,
            "open_source": true,
            "license": "MIT",
            "source": "https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer",
            "strengths": [
                "Nonprofit operator, per its homepage",
                "MIT-licensed source on GitLab"
            ],
            "limits": [
                "Its search breadth is not compared on the homepage",
                "Results depend on the sources it draws on"
            ],
            "checked": "2026-10-10",
            "connected_to_publisher": false,
            "overview": "MetaGer is a metasearch engine developed and run by the nonprofit organization SUMA-EV. Its homepage says it respects privacy, with no ads, no tracking and no logging, and that it lets you browse websites anonymously.\n\nThe source code is published on GitLab under the MIT license, and the homepage describes the project as open source. Access uses a key rather than an account, according to the site, so you do not need to sign up to search. It suits people who want metasearch without ads or an account."
        }
    ],
    "differences": [
        "Only Google Search runs on iOS.",
        "Only Google Search runs on Android.",
        "MetaGer is open source; Google Search is not.",
        "Google Search: free. MetaGer: free and open source."
    ],
    "shared_rankings": [
        {
            "list": "search-engines",
            "name": "Search engines",
            "page": "https://listme.name/best/search-engines",
            "of": 10,
            "results": [
                {
                    "product": "google-search",
                    "rank": 1,
                    "score": 91,
                    "verdict": "The broadest results, with images, maps, news and AI Mode, but results are tied to a Google account and advertising. The privacy-focused engines below trade some breadth for less tracking.",
                    "best_for": "General searches, images, maps and news",
                    "spec": {
                        "privacy": "Tied to a Google account",
                        "cost": "Free",
                        "ai_answers": true,
                        "open_source": false
                    }
                },
                {
                    "product": "metager",
                    "rank": 5,
                    "score": 82.5,
                    "verdict": "A nonprofit, ad-free metasearch engine with no ads, tracking or logging, and MIT-licensed source on GitLab. It needs no account, using a key instead, which suits private searching more than the big engines' breadth.",
                    "best_for": "Private metasearch without an account",
                    "spec": {
                        "privacy": "No ads, tracking or logging; key access",
                        "cost": "Free",
                        "ai_answers": false,
                        "open_source": true
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ranks_higher_in_closest_shared_list": "google-search",
    "page": "https://listme.name/compare/google-search-vs-metager",
    "json": "https://listme.name/api/v1/compare/google-search-vs-metager.json",
    "notes": [
        "Scores are editorial and only comparable inside one list. Products with connected_to_publisher true receive a disclosed ranking lift: https://listme.name/methodology"
    ],
    "source": "https://listme.name",
    "license": "Free to read and cite with attribution to listme.name.",
    "docs": "https://listme.name/developers"
}