xPrivo 4.0: The Most Powerful Private Search Engine Built & Hosted Entirely in Europe

Nice initiative! The bad name alone might be enough to sink it though.

To anyone who knows more about this: does this actually do anything particularly unique to avoid collecting user data, or is it basically just "trust us bro" and we just need to rely on the privacy policy and so on? It seems like DuckDuckGo but European everything (and with more of an AI focus) from my reading here.

Me: What is the truth behind xprivo? Xprivo: I’m not sure what “xprivo” refers to.

Good, no self awareness! 😁

elon made me instinctively avoid anything with x in it where x isn't part of a real word.

Why are we calling an AIChat a search engine now?

I want a search engine that provides me with some clickable links to relevant websites.

Edit: I mean look at this... It literally tells me to use another search engine that I'm trying to avoid??:

HELLLLLOOOO!?!?

I dont like that they put ads as the first search result

What is the business model? The way they emphasize AI features, it sounds venture capital-ish and thus prone to enshittification.

What a name...

Here's better name: YAAIC (Yet Another AI Chat)

This has a lot of potential. So apparently they use their own + European Search Perspective indexes. The ESP was built by Ecosia and Qwant I believe. Will be testing out whether it's any good. Most search engines use bing or google under the hood, having something independent and still being decent is not easy. Last I checked only Brave had something remotely usable and independent but even then it was not that good. Kagi uses their own but still rely heavily on bing / google.

First impressions the site itself is pretty polished, at least from the UI side of things.

Seems like they have a PRO and PLUS services. PRO is 8 eur a month and gives access to more expensive LLM models. So far they offer Qwen 3, Kimi 2.5, Mistral 3, GPT 5.2, Gemini 3 PRO. Not bad but from my understanding you can only do 100 queries for that 8 eur.

Seems like the open source models are also hosted on EU. Would be great if they could include more, smaller models, such as Gemma 4, GPT 20B...

Will also be looking into their privacy claims and whether it's not just "trust me bro". I saw someone mention they were also planning on making the search open source or something ?

https://www.old.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rq52ka/comment/o9ppycu/ , but havent delivered.

I have to say though looking really good.

Edit: What I say below is no longer true. They seemed to fix it

The query

anti-fascism

results in funny results. The first page has absolutely nothing about fascism (nor anti-fascism) and it's only when you click on "show me more" that you actually get anti-fascism results.

No thanks