“The world's most private search engine”

Re:“The world's most private search engine” by qwertzlcoatl on Thursday June 20, 2013 @11:31PM (#5916361)

I usually use DuckDuckGo.com, because they have a neat toolbar and I want to support their cause, but everytime I don't get the results I want through DDG (which happens rarely) I just type !sp + searchterm into my search bar and it searches via startpage.com, which uses googles search results without my IP address or searches being recorded, no identifying or tracking cookies are used and SSL encryption is set by default.

Startpage.com was launched in 2009 by ixquick to create the same service via a URL that is both easier to remember and spell.

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Re:“The world's most private search engine” by Sami_Lehtinen on Friday June 21, 2013 @02:34AM (#5916865)

Wrong, it is not same service.

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Re:“The world's most private search engine” by drivebyacct2 on Friday June 21, 2013 @02:59AM (#5916918)

>https://startpage.com/eng/aboutstartpage/

Start page by ixquick.

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Re:“The world's most private search engine” by Sami_Lehtinen on Friday June 21, 2013 @03:03AM (#5916931)

Nice quote, but you completely missed the point. How about just comparing the results, so it's very clear it's not same service as ixquick. It's same company, but not same service.

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Re:“The world's most private search engine” by drivebyacct2 on Friday June 21, 2013 @03:15AM (#5916963)

My mistake, I genuinely missed the "enhanced with Google part".

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