Which search engines are uncensored?

No widely used search engine is completely "uncensored" — every major provider applies some level of filtering, ranking, or moderation for legal, safety, quality, commercial, or local‑regulatory reasons. What people mean by "uncensored" varies (no removal of illegal content, no personalization, no moderation of adult or extremist content, etc.), so pick a provider based on the specific behavior you care about.

Short guide to providers and their typical limits:

• DuckDuckGo
  • Emphasizes privacy: does not track you or build a long-term profile.
  • Still filters illegal content and follows applicable laws; uses crowd-sourced and partner results (Bing) so ranking and content policies reflect those sources.
• Startpage / Ixquick (Startpage)
  • Privacy-focused (serves Google results anonymously). Has Google’s filtering/prioritization implicitly, but reduces tracking.
• Searx and other open-source metasearch instances
  • Self-hosted or public instances aggregate results from multiple engines and can be configured to minimize tracking or personalization.
  • Content still comes from underlying engines; a public instance may impose its own filters.
• Brave Search
  • Privacy-respecting and building its own index; aims for less personalization. It still enforces laws and community safety standards.
• Qwant
  • Privacy-forward European search; still applies moderation and legal compliance.
• Bing, Google, Yahoo
  • Large indexes and heavy ranking; apply personalization, content removal requests, local law compliance, and commercial ranking signals.

Important caveats:

• Legal removals: Almost every engine complies with valid copyright takedown requests, court orders, and statutory restrictions (child sexual abuse material, terrorism sanctions, etc.). No mainstream engine deliberately hosts or returns illegal content that must be removed.
• Private vs public instances: Using a self-hosted or trusted public instance of an open-source search aggregator (like Searx) can reduce tracking and personalization, but it does not magically surface illegal content that engines or hosts remove.
• "Uncensored" can mean different things: less personalization and tracking; fewer algorithmic boosts; or refusal to comply with content‑removal requests. There’s a tradeoff between freedom of information and legal/safety responsibilities.
• Technical workarounds (VPNs, Tor) change your apparent location and may show different localized results, but they don’t make engines return content that has been removed from indexes for legal/safety reasons.

If you tell me which specific kind of "uncensored" behavior you want (e.g., minimal personalization, privacy from tracking, no content moderation, or access to archived/controversial pages), I can recommend specific search engines or configurations and note the legal/safety limits.