Stop scrolling through Google’s AI junk: Startpage’s “classic” search engine is better

“So I chose Startpage, a privacy-focused search engine that gets its results from Google, Bing, and a range of other sources, but doesn’t have any of the tracking. With little of the added junk that I neither want nor need, it seemed like it could be the ideal middle ground, bringing the best bits of Google wrapped in a more classic search experience. I loaded it up on my laptop and phone to find out.”

Having a quick look at it though, it does look quite a bit like the open source SearXNG search engine. It’s a similar look and feel, with a nice clean look. Sadly the map search using Mapquest was a disaster (I searched for restaurants in Cape Town and was shown restaurants in the USA). But I think that issue is with Mapquest, as choosing the Google Maps option then worked fine (but defeated the object of the exercise).

Still, it is another option to try. They are headquartered in The Netherlands so are EU based under the GDPR. They do state: “Every search performed on Startpage is processed through our proprietary personal data protection technology” so it is not open source software.

See howtogeek.com/i-replaced-googl… or their website at startpage.com/category/uncateg…
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