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I just did a search on our business and the results were not the same, just like DDG and Bing isn't the same. From best to worst result on the same search string:

Google > Startpage > Qwant > Bing > DDG

But even if they were 100% identical, it has some privacy unlike 3 out of the other 4.

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Whether your business appears good on search results is a highly subjective indicator of quality though.

If the name is quite unique it's a good indicator because some site with high pagerank and lot of seo that list other websites/companies/software are sometime higher than the original site (stackshare.io or alternativeto.net for example)

If I am not mistaken, only Startpage and DDG will allow HTTP POST instead of GET.

Startpage.com's new owner makes it less private than doing a search on Facebook while logged into your Google Chrome account.

What is a "Chrome account"? Web browsers ask users to "sign-up" now? For what?

To sync with your other devices. You keep your extensions, history, bookmarks, etc... It acts as a backup.

To mine even more of your personal data.

They give you cloud sync functionality in return.

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