Maybe, I don't know. I once tested ixquick/startpage as a replacement for Google Search, but those sites doesn't do what they claim to. The site says that they provide Google Search functionality without the tracking functionality, but in reality, the results isn't comparable at all with what you'll get when using Google's search engine, either alone or through proxy (for ex. Tor). I tried a bunch of other search engines but none of them can come even close to the result accuracy of Google Search, but only one. Although DuckDuckGo's search results are good, it's far behind Google, and can be used only for basic searching. But overall, especially with the unique functions DDG comes with (like the bang syntax, info box, or privacy awareness, just to name some), it's the only true competitor for Google I'm aware of. If DDG succeeds to include the missing features of GS, and work on the accuracy of the results, I will gladly abandon the waters of Google (Search). I also forgot to mention tha DDG's source code is partially released under the Perl 5 license, which is FLOSS compatible.

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