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Totally agree. Had a similar experience as well and then tried again a few months ago and am happy. I do still need to jump over to Le Goog for some searches though. The UI supports a good amount of tweaking which was helpful for getting me used to the switch too

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!g search term

!s = Startpage, anonymizing by proxy the Google SERPs. I know, I'm having to retrain my DDG Bang muscle memory myself.

Oh! Many thanks :)

Do they have a contract with google? Or how do they get around captchas and cease and desists?

"Startpage acts as an intermediary between you and Google, so your searches are completely private. Startpage submits your query to Google anonymously, then returns Google results to you privately. Google never sees you and does not know who made the request; they only see Startpage."

From: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...

More: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/...

This one answers my question better: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...

> Why does Google let Startpage access their search results?

> Startpage.com has a contract with Google that allows us to use their official "Syndicated Web Search" feed, so we have to pay them to get those results.

So what is their own business model? Do they show ads? (I disabled adblock but didn't see any.)

Yes, they show non-personalized sponsored links: https://www.startpage.com/en/search/privacy-policy.html

Why not just go directly on Startpage instead of DDG -> Startpage?

Thank you for teaching me this. It seems there are a whole bunch `!gm search term` will access google maps for instance.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

There's thousands of them

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