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I would guess more of Google's landing page is cached, and it's a smaller page. I'm getting Google in 0.5-3 secounds, DuckDuckGo in 3-4 secounds, StartPage in
by notjtrig 8y ago
I would guess more of Google's landing page is cached, and it's a smaller page.
I'm getting Google in 0.5-3 secounds, DuckDuckGo in 3-4 secounds, StartPage in 2 secounds. USA 4G 3:30AM
On another note, both Google and DuckDuckGo seem to link directly to search results but actually redirect your broswer to capture the link you clicked. StartPage links directly to search results.
I've asked DuckDuckGo about this and they can't provide a sastifactory answer. Maybe someone could clue me in why that redirect is nessicary, but until then I consider them untrustworthy.
- aaronhoffman 8y agoIsn’t it to mask the search terms that you used? If you go directly to the page the current url including the query would become the referrer
- londons_explore 8y agoNo https cross domain referr
- tagawa 8y agoHi. Sorry you haven't had a satisfactory answer from us - I'll try to do that here. The click redirects are to stop the subsequent website from seeing a user's search terms, but we only use it for browsers that don't support meta referrer. Even then, we obviously don't collect or share anything via the redirect server, in line with our privacy policy ( https://duckduckgo.com/privacy https://duckduckgo.com/privacy ). There's a bit more about the redirects here: https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom Also, it's possible to disable them completely here: http://duckduckgo.com/settings#privacy http://duckduckgo.com/settings#privacy Disclaimer: DuckDuckGo staff