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Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web (blog.mozilla.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you can use Google through SearX, isn't Startpage redundant? IIRC they don't ever claim to do anything but proxy Google results.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yes, except in the case where Google is rate limited. There is/was a Searx instance that regularly got blocked by Google, I do not remember which one though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

isn’t Startpage redundant?

After they were purchased by an advertising company? Yes.