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Totally agree. Had a similar experience as well and then tried again a few months ago and am happy. I do still need to jump over to Le Goog for some searches th

by jb3689 8y ago

Totally agree. Had a similar experience as well and then tried again a few months ago and am happy. I do still need to jump over to Le Goog for some searches though. The UI supports a good amount of tweaking which was helpful for getting me used to the switch too

pixxel 8y ago
!g search term
- vanadium 8y ago
  !s = Startpage, anonymizing by proxy the Google SERPs. I know, I'm having to retrain my DDG Bang muscle memory myself.
  - pixxel 8y ago
    Oh! Many thanks :)
  - owaty 8y ago
    Do they have a contract with google? Or how do they get around captchas and cease and desists?
    - vanadium 8y ago
      "Startpage acts as an intermediary between you and Google, so your searches are completely private. Startpage submits your query to Google anonymously, then returns Google results to you privately. Google never sees you and does not know who made the request; they only see Startpage." From: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/158/22/what-is-the-relationship-between-startpage-and-google https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic... More: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/22/google https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/...
      - owaty 8y ago
        This one answers my question better: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/147/22/why-does-google-let-startpage-access-their-search-results https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic... > Why does Google let Startpage access their search results? > Startpage.com has a contract with Google that allows us to use their official "Syndicated Web Search" feed, so we have to pay them to get those results. So what is their own business model? Do they show ads? (I disabled adblock but didn't see any.)
        saagarjha 8y ago
        Yes, they show non-personalized sponsored links: https://www.startpage.com/en/search/privacy-policy.html https://www.startpage.com/en/search/privacy-policy.html
  - shafyy 8y ago
    Why not just go directly on Startpage instead of DDG -> Startpage?
- Alan_Dillman 8y ago
  Thank you for teaching me this. It seems there are a whole bunch `!gm search term` will access google maps for instance.
  - NeedMoreTea 8y ago
    https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang There's thousands of them !w Wikipedia !hn Here :) !auk Amazon UK !so Stack Overflow

by jb3689 8y ago

pixxel 8y ago

!g search term

vanadium 8y ago
!s = Startpage, anonymizing by proxy the Google SERPs. I know, I'm having to retrain my DDG Bang muscle memory myself.
- pixxel 8y ago
  Oh! Many thanks :)
- owaty 8y ago
  Do they have a contract with google? Or how do they get around captchas and cease and desists?
  - vanadium 8y ago
    "Startpage acts as an intermediary between you and Google, so your searches are completely private. Startpage submits your query to Google anonymously, then returns Google results to you privately. Google never sees you and does not know who made the request; they only see Startpage." From: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/158/22/what-is-the-relationship-between-startpage-and-google https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic... More: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/22/google https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/...
    - owaty 8y ago
      This one answers my question better: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/147/22/why-does-google-let-startpage-access-their-search-results https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic... > Why does Google let Startpage access their search results? > Startpage.com has a contract with Google that allows us to use their official "Syndicated Web Search" feed, so we have to pay them to get those results. So what is their own business model? Do they show ads? (I disabled adblock but didn't see any.)
      - saagarjha 8y ago
        Yes, they show non-personalized sponsored links: https://www.startpage.com/en/search/privacy-policy.html https://www.startpage.com/en/search/privacy-policy.html
- shafyy 8y ago
  Why not just go directly on Startpage instead of DDG -> Startpage?
Alan_Dillman 8y ago
Thank you for teaching me this. It seems there are a whole bunch `!gm search term` will access google maps for instance.
- NeedMoreTea 8y ago
  https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang There's thousands of them !w Wikipedia !hn Here :) !auk Amazon UK !so Stack Overflow