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Uruky
A paid, EU-based private search engine — no ads, no tracking, no AI summaries
Website: https://uruky.com/ · Cost: €5/month · Type: Paid SaaS (EU-based)
Why it exists
Uruky exists because of a simple economic argument: if you don't pay for the product, the product is you. Ad-funded search engines are incentivized to collect data and increasingly to keep you on their pages (ads, AI summaries, news carousels). Uruky takes the opposite bet — a small, honest subscription in exchange for a plain, distraction-free search experience. It positions itself as a European answer to Kagi: a "private search engine, not an ecosystem".
Main features
- No ads, no tracking — results are just results. No assistants, no news panels, no AI summaries.
- Personal result customization — exclude or boost domains so your results match your judgment.
- Provider choice — control over which underlying search providers feed your results.
- Mullvad-style privacy & billing — a random account number, no email required, no automatic renewal (buy a month or a voucher when you need one), 14-day money-back guarantee.
- EU everything — EU servers, storage, payments and search providers.
- Source-code escrow — paying customers get a copy of the source code after 12 months, a rare trust-building move for a proprietary tool.
Who it's for
- People unhappy with ads, AI clutter and tracking in Google/Bing, but who want something simpler than running a SearXNG instance.
- Privacy purists in Europe who prefer EU jurisdiction for their data.
- Users of Kagi looking for a leaner, cheaper, no-AI alternative (€5 vs. Kagi's tiers).
- Anyone who wants to pay a search engine once, like buying a utility — not subscribe forever.
How it compares
| Engine | Funding | AI summaries | Privacy model | Customization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uruky | Paid (€5/mo) | None (explicitly) | Random account ID, EU-only | Exclude/boost domains, pick providers |
| Kagi | Paid | Optional | Privacy-focused, US | Strong (lenses, domains) |
| DuckDuckGo | Ads | Some | No profiling, US-based | Limited |
| Mojeek | Own index + ads | No | UK-based, own crawler | Some |
| SearXNG | Free, self-host | No | Total (you host it) | Full, but needs maintenance |
Useful links
- Website: https://uruky.com/
- Why pay?: https://uruky.com/why-pay
- Threat models & documentation on the site
- Comparison pages vs. Kagi, Google, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Ecosia, Qwant, SearXNG, MetaGer
Notes
- Reviewed favorably by The Privacy Dad, Rewiring, AksDev and others — commonly summarized as "rougher than Kagi, but good enough for daily search, and refreshingly free of AI".
- The engineer publishes interviews about why paid search differs structurally from ad-funded search.
- "No automatic renewal" is genuinely unusual in a subscription business — you buy vouchers/months when you want them.