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DDG = Bing

Startpage = Google

Bing/DDG results suck (when localized to Sweden), so I use Startpage.

I know it's owned by an ad tech company now, but I haven't seen any proof that will affect me. Its reach can't be compared to Google's, which has its trackers on just about every web page (Google Analytics and Fonts).

Looks like Startpage is now what Scroogle was roughly up to a decade ago.

https://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/22/scroogle-founder-pulls-the...

Any time DDG fails me, I just append "!s" to proxy the search through StartPage instead. I've found it scratches the itch pretty well for 99% of my use cases.

Which is just google, right?

In the same sense that "DuckDuckGo is just Bing".

I thought Startpage is literally a privacy layer over Google Search and DDG has their own webcrawler and algorithms built on top of Bing.

I found myself typing !s so much I switched my default to start page. DDG results are really bad imo

I use Google for work DDG for play.

Google is just so much better at finding technical related content.