Epic Privacy Browser team)You Are Not The Product.
No Ads. No Personal Information ever Stored or Shared. No Filter Bubble. No “Personalized” Search Results. Just your search query determines what results you see. Simple, Private Search.
An Honest, Trusted Team
EpicSearch is a product from the Epic Privacy Browser Team who has been proudly protecting millions of users around the world for 6+ years now. We're one of just three privacy software companies with a record of putting our users' privacy ahead of our business interests. While other software companies were misleading their users, we've been protecting them.
We’re dedicated to true privacy and transparency. We have never and will never mislead anyone about what our products do and don’t do.
How EpicSearch Works
EpicSearch doesn’t save any search queries nor keep any logs beyond a simple search count. We use cookies only in order to log you into our service. The only usage data we store is a count of your searches. To retrieve search results, we send only your search query (not your IP address nor any other information) to Yandex.
EpicSearch is ad-free. To sustain it, we charge a nominal $2.50/month fee. You receive up to 5000 searches/month (if you need more, please write us). Our payment system and all your payment details are handled by Stripe. Payments once made are non-refundable, but you may cancel your monthly subscription at any time (you won't be billed for any subsequent months).
Privacy and Freedom
Privacy is essential to our freedom. The goal of a surveillance system is to suppress some ideas or thoughts through self-censorship, effectively creating prisons in our mind. Privacy is that space in which we can exercise freedom to explore any idea.
We have tried for as long as possible to keep EpicSearch free (which it has been for the past seven years). We're now at a scale where we have to charge for EpicSearch to continue the service. We will keep our prices as low as possible to enable everyone in the world to search privately.
Our Founder Alok spoke at TEDx on Privacy & Freedom.
Frequently Asked Questions
I'm an Epic Privacy Browser user and I would like to keep using Epic for free. What options do I have? In Epic's Settings under Search Engine, you can switch to free search options which support Epic including Yahoo at present. Google cancelled our previous private search partnership and no longer works with smaller browsers. Using Yahoo in Epic is free and supports us. We hope to migrate to a free, transparent, private search engine from Yahoo soon. If you don't have search options other than EpicSearch, you're on an older version of Epic, please email Alok for help at alok at hiddenreflex dot com.
What about Incognito Mode? Can I trust it? Is its claim to delete your browsing history from the device accurate? Chrome's Incognito mode does clearly state that you're not protected from governmental, employer, website, ISP and other surveillance and tracking. It claims that your device history is deleted from your device on close of the browser. Even that limited claim, unfortunately, is not accurate. After closing your Incognito Window, you can easily access your browsing history on your device in a few seconds via the OS's DNS cache. Google should narrow its claims to state that your browsing history doesn't come up in Chrome's browsing history. Incognito mode, thus, provides quite minimal privacy benefits (vs. say the Epic Privacy Browser or the TOR Browser).
How can I see my browsing history after I close my Incognito window? You need to access your DNS cache. In Windows, press WinKey + R, type cmd and press Enter to open a command terminal. In the command line, type ipconfig /displaydns to see your Incognito browsing history (in the DNS cache). Type ipconfig /flushdns and press Enter to delete your DNS cache.
Are there other privacy services you recommend? As you can guess from the above, we are unable to trust most privacy software providers unfortunately.
How many results do I get per search query? 25 results are initially shown. You can see another 75 results by clicking more results at the bottom of the page.
Can you improve the search results? We can't afford to buy results from Google or Bing at present, but we hope to in the future.
How long have EpicSearch and the Epic Privacy Browser been supported? What demonstrations of trust have you made? The Epic Privacy Browser and EpicSearch have been protecting your privacy with transparency for seven years now. We're one of just three companies which has placed your privacy ahead of our business interests. When Google annulled our private search partnership, we refused to let them track you and tried for years to form another private search partnership before moving to a paid service model for EpicSearch.
EpicSearch only provides web results? No image, video, news, maps or other types of results? Yes, EpicSearch only provides web results at present. With one click, you can send your query to other search engines for videos, images, news, maps or other results. We can't afford to buy results in the other media formats from Google or Bing at present, but we hope to in the future.
Can I access other search engines if I don’t like EpicSearch’s results? Yes. We have links to Bing, Google and other sites such as Twitter at the top of EpicSearch. In case you need more search results, those other options are just one click away.
How private is EpicSearch? EpicSearch provides what one intuitively would expect from a private search engine. There are no ads. We send only your query, not any IP or other information to retrieve search results. We save no data except a numerical count of your searches.
Why is the cost so reasonable? Yes, it's just $2.50/month. We want as many people as possible to enjoy private access to the internet. We have kept our Epic Privacy Browser free with a free, unlimited encrypted proxy (a VPN for the browser), and kept the fee for EpicSearch as low as possible.
Can I get a refund? Can I cancel my account at anytime? We're unable to offer any refunds once the service has been purchased. You can cancel your service anytime by logging into your account, then clicking on subscriptions then cancelling your subscription.
What if I need more than 5000 searches per month? Email us and we'll try to accommodate you. Write our founder directly alok at hiddenreflex dot com.
Who handles your payments? Stripe.