Search Encrypt: The Private Search Engine Extension

Search Encrypt is a private search engine. It’s available both at SearchEncrypt.com and as an extension in the Chrome Web Store. The developers of this program and search engine designed it with privacy in mind, to make it a completely privacy-focused search engine. It works on regular browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and others. You can assign https://www.searchencrypt.com as your homepage, default search engine, or new tab page.

If you want to know how Search Encrypt can protect you on the internet, you should know that it does not track your information, or anything that can personally identify you. Other search engines are like computer parasites that collect tons of information from your computer system without clearly telling you what they are tracking.

Search Encrypt keeps your searches safe by not doing any unwanted tracking associated with traditional search engines. Whether you are using the search engine as a browser extension or just on the web, your searches are encrypted from start to finish.

The differences you will notice right away when you use Search Encrypt are less targeted advertisements all over the internet and more objective search results. You may not notice, but other search engines show you search results based on websites you’ve visited in the past. The developers of this private search engine were tired of the “filter bubble” created by big search engines. Because Search Encrypt doesn’t track user data, it cannot determine which results you are more likely to click on by analyzing your past searches and browsing behavior.

If you’re interested in getting rid of search engines that track you, we recommend clearing your history from those search engines and switching to Search Encrypt.

Search Encrypt is offered as a privacy-focused search engine in both a web search engine, and a search engine extension.

Many people cannot figure out how to use a a private search engine because they just haven’t tried. You can add Search Encrypt to Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to protect you from search engines that track users. You can also set Search Encrypt as your default search engine, a way that you can reassign your settings to maintain privacy online.

Search results deliver by Search Encrypt are supported by sponsored ads. The ads are based on your search keyword and nothing else. Usually, search engines can use the data they have about you to target ads in the search results and after you’ve left the site.

Note that intrusive ads from other search engines and their advertising networks might not only be annoying, but also malicious.

Questions About Search Encrypt

1. Search Encrypt does not track search history in any user identifiable way.

The most popular search engines create search profiles of specific users in order to retarget ads based on those search queries as the user navigates the internet. Search Encrypt does not track your search history in any user identifiable way.

2. Search Encrypt does not retain server logs connected to personally identifiable information (PII).

Search Encrypt does not use tracking tool or maintain logs that compromise your privacy.

3. Search Encrypt prevents your ISP from tracking your search terms.

Some search engines do not encrypt your queries, which means your Internet Service Provider (ISP) can intercept and access them and connect them to your web and/or cable account. When you use Search Encrypt, your search queries are encrypted so that your ISP cannot read them.

This means Search Encrypt protects your searches from potentially dangerous situations that could lead to hackers or other users on your computer accessing your searches. Therefore, we suggest you use Search Encrypt for all your searches.

Distribution Techniques Used To Get Search Encrypt

As mentioned above, Search Encrypt can be used as a regular search engine, or downloaded from the Chrome Web Store. However, it is private and easy to use regardless of how you use it.

Once the user installs our browser extension, either for Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, their searches will be much safer and secure. Usually, people use one search engine that tracks them even after they are done searching. This creates potentially unwanted effects, like targeted ads and filtered and censored search results. Users can choose their settings with the browser extension, which will help them customize their search experience while not sacrificing privacy.

Potentially unwanted settings and functions may be bundled into the traditional search engines you may have used in the past. If you want to protect your system check the settings in your browser and on these search engines, and then switch to Search Encrypt’s private search engine.

Get Search Encrypt on Mac and Windows

While Search Encrypt is unable to get rid of viruses or completely protect your computer from system vulnerabilities like malware, it will certainly prevent much of your data from leaking onto the internet. Other search engines collect and store your information, which makes it vulnerable to hacks and data breaches. Neither our browser extension or online search engine tracks your personally identifiable information.

You will never need to worry about Search Encrypt leaking your information whether you use a Mac or Windows computer. If you want to protect your computer from other threats we recommend downloading an antivirus tool and running a full system scan. Note that you can also use another security software if it is reputable and powerful enough to deal with potentially unwanted programs or viruses.

We have prepared manual Search Encrypt extension download guidelines for those who seek to search safely. We have included them at the end of this article together with the guide to reset your browser to the primary state. If you follow the instructions attentively, your computer and your browser will be safer from the big search engines that track your data.

You can remove malware or other unwanted programs on your computer with an antivirus or other security application. We recommend these applications because they can delete potentially harmful or unwanted programs and viruses in a quick and simple process.

Manual Search Encrypt Installation Guide:

Get Search Encrypt on Mac OS X

While you can easily go to SearchEncrypt.com to perform a search—just type SearchEncrypt.com in your browser's address field—it's easiest to use either the built-in search field, or the combination search and address field that browsers such as Safari and Chrome offer. To be able to use a different search engine than the default, you'll need to manually make a change. Here's how you do this for the three main browsers in OS X.

• Safari: Safari only offers a few search engines to set as the default search. Unfortunately Search Encrypt isn’t included in this list. However, you can still set Search Encrypt as your homepage which will allow you to quickly access the search engine every time you open your browser.
• Choose Safari > Preferences, and then click General.
• In the Homepage field, enter https://www.searchencrypt.com.
• Choose when your homepage is shown:
• Open new windows with your homepage: Click the “New windows open with” pop-up menu, then choose Homepage.
• Open new tabs with your homepage: Click the “New tabs open with” pop-up menu, then choose Homepage.
• Chrome: Choose Chrome > Preferences, and look in the Search section of the Settings page that displays. Click "Manage search engines…" and next to Other search engines, select “Add”.
• In the search engine field add: Search Encrypt
• In the Keyword field add: http://searchencrypt.com
• In the Query URL field add: https://www.searchencrypt.com/search?eq=%s

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