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DDG is Bing. You all know that right? This is just another alternative Microsoft product like Ecosia and Yahoo.

And so?

Startpage is just Google.

If you dislike being tracked by Google and Bing it is still better to use DDG or Startpage.

We should have more than two search engines.

Yep, and now we are in a better position than we have been in a long time since a number of engines are building their own indexes.

In my opinion the most interesting in this regard (i.e. building its own index) is marginalia who shows that a meaningful addition to the search engine space can be run by a single person on single consumer PC running in a living room.

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