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There are been a significant growth in paid, private search engines. With these search engines, you need to be signed in to be able to search. While this isn't a problem in and of itself, it can cause problems with certain browser features—like incognito mode. In incognito mode, because cookies are not saved, you cannot search as you are not logged into your search engine. The solution to this? The ability to use a separate search engine for incognito mode only.

Vivaldi is the only browser that I know of that offers this feature:

    I second this, I personally like to use duckduck go or start page in private mode so this would be useful.

      h2flux We plan to save cookies for Kagi search in incognito mode. We could do that for other paid search engines in the future. Would that work?

        Vlad I think that could work, or exceptions for the remove cookies rule could be made as well by the user... Maybe?

          Vlad That could work, but only if other search engines are supported too.

            2 months later

            Firefox has this option:

            To set a default search engine, and a separate default search engine for private mode windows. I believe this would be a great option to add to Orion as well. Thanks.

              eirk ah my bad. Yep. Searched "private mode" instead of "incognito", haha.

                Private mode is a better name than "incognito". "Incognito" sounds like google branding.

                Merged 4 posts from Separate private mode search engine.

                  Personally, I use Google as a daily driver as I am used to its results; however, don't trust Google with data suitable for "private mode", and therefore, choose to use an independent search engine when using private mode. Curious to hear the use case of others.

                  • Vlad replied to this.
                    a year later

                    It would be cool if there was the choice of the search engine for incognito cards as on the iOS version

                    Orion for iOS search engine selection:

                      2 months later
                      Merged 1 post from Search engine for incognito mode like Orion for iOS.
                        5 months later

                        @Vlad possibly simple and old issue to implement?

                          25 days later
                          a year later

                          @Vlad isn't this already done?

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