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Hello everyone.

Could you please tell me which privacy search engines are better than Startpage?  
I’ve looked at about 5–10 different options, and Startpage turned out to be the best in terms of search results, its minimalist design, and the absence of Google trackers and other junk.

1\. DuckDuckGo – poor search results (fourth place in my ranking)  
2\. Mojeek – I’d put this in second place after Startpage  
3\. Qwant – causes problems for the user with captchas, etc.  
4\. Swisscows – asks for payment, etc.  
5\. searX – of the options available here [https://searx.space/](https://searx.space/ "https://searx.space/"), 90% of them don’t work properly.  
6\. Peekier – requires registration with unethical accounts  
7\. MetaGer – instead of searching straight away, you have to spend time creating something incomprehensible for no apparent reason… very inconvenient and time-consuming.  
8\. Ecosia – I’d put it in third place