I used DuckDuckGo for most of the past decade but switched to Startpage maybe 6 months ago. I wish I made the switch sooner. It gives much more accurate results than Google or DDG. If you type something and it doesn't find it, it simply gives you no matches. Basically... how search engines used to work before nonsensical algorithms started giving us endless pages of non-matches.
Startpage uses Google but also has its own crawler - it does well depending on what you're looking for - for stuff that's censored, Bing (Qwant and DDG use Bing) often turn up a pile of results where Startpage returns none
I just took your advice and added it to my Chrome...it then prompted me to do my first search...I typed in 'faggot', and was pleased with the results. https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRe93WWtj1Gy7tp4HRZvWN2MTtsud6Z2pyOjJFVhbIeViP70wYb%26s&sp=1609555792T3d3576c42c9c66e092a88c860c7aa4162f0f84abf1c70a275e8a3bc65e4a95d7
Start page has some shady shit going on.
Such as? I haven't heard anything negative about them up to now.
I've always and only used startpage for search for about a decade now. I always found it a reliable although it doesn't yield as thorough results as gog. If I had a source i would post it here but someone said recently something negative about startpage. That is all.
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