startpage.com to my knowledge simply queries google.

Their main advantage years ago is it was a way to have anonymized queries without being profiled by Google.

Unfortunately Startpage.com was sold off a few years ago to "System1' an ad company business with a shady history and now it's probably no better than Google's data-mining

https://web.archive.org/web/20191113094509/https://blog.privacytools.io/delisting-startpage/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage.com#Merger_and_recent_history

startpage.com to my knowledge simply queries google.

Their main advantage years ago is it was a way to have anonymized queries without being profiled by Google.

Unfortunately Startpage.com was sold off a few years ago to "System1' a business with a shady history and now it's probably no better than Google's data-mining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage.com#Merger_and_recent_history