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Originally Posted by wicket View Post
Agreed. Not only that but Google filter bubbles search results, so if fw190 is getting the same search results with Start Page as with Google as he has claimed, then it would imply that he is still being tracked and therefore no advantage to using Start Page over Google.
Q: So, Startpage uses Google Web results. Is my privacy still protected? Completely. Startpage works under the same strict privacy policy as Ixquick; we don't store any personal data (like your IP address) and don't pass on any of this data to third parties, including Google. This way you will get Web results from the most popular search engine with the privacy protection from the world's most private search engine Ixquick.com.
So while you can continue to get the search results you have grown accustomed to, you don't have to worry about your privacy anymore!
Basically startpage submits search data to google but without any identifiable information in it. So google still gets searches made etc but without knowing who did so... Whether this is tolerable by them I don't know but its certainly more preferable to using Google.

I get results in different orders when using both search engines. For example searching for "blazink" on startpage gives me first links to restaurants in the US with that name and then Flickr results while google does the opposite presumably due to me being far away from the US...
 

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