I'd like to go on a slight tangent and notice that Startpage has been dropping 1/3 of my queries the past week, with a message saying that their systems are ove

I'd like to go on a slight tangent and notice that Startpage has been dropping 1/3 of my queries the past week, with a message saying that their systems are overtaxed. I don't have much confidence in it. In my experience technical problems often preclude more serious ones. I realise that I'm in the realm of reading tea leaves, but this heuristic has saved me more than once.