tkmantz625 wrote: > There's a whole lot of anti-DuckDuckGo talk (rightfully so), but not > a whole lot of talk about solutions. How does Ixquick/Startpage and > Privatelee and others hold up to scrutiny?
I did a WHOIS and traceroute of DuckDuckGo and Startpage IP addresses. As expected, packets to DuckDuckGo.com are routed to local AWS servers. Packets to StartPage are routed through "Peer 1 Inc." via the United States. Apparently Peer 1 owned by Cogeco Cable Inc. Peer 1 specialises in "managed hosting, dedicated servers, cloud services and colocation" according to Wikipedia. If you use Tor then it doesn't matter anyway, providing the Tor network is secure. Andrew
