Before someone chimes in with some kind of accusation, yes DuckDuckGo does contribute to LXLE the same as it does to many other well known Linux Distributions, and while that could be perceived as search engine bias, it actually isn't, reason being is at least as far as I'm concerned is while not all of DuckDuckGo is opensource because some of the search engines that it uses to obtain results are closed source, there is nothing they can do about that, however essentially all of their in house software is opensource which is more than others can say, mainly startpage which is DuckDuckGo's biggest competitor for private searches, Startpage has no opensource components of its search engine at all. None, zilch, nada. On top of that Startpage doesn't support any projects whether opensource or not with the revenue they generate. Thats their right, but I tend to lean toward projects that help other projects, particularly opensource projects.

Also and this is just my personal feeling, I'm not overly comfortable with the idea of not wanting Google to track and catalog my activities by using a service that uses Google to obtain its results. It's a similar reason why I don't use Chrome or Chromium web browser. For me even if you use anti-tracking extensions on those browsers its basically like putting lipstick on a pig.

However Startpage is liked by many and perhaps I'm overly critical because of the above statements. Essentially of course its up to you, but I thought I better nip this post in the bud, before it turned accusatory.

I tried DDG in order to switch from Google Search - and first impression is that I could easily switch to DDG - except for one thing I really miss: The Search tool / time parameter. It's a great tool for example if you are looking for anything regarding Linux - because normally pages that are more than a year old is irrelevant. Maybe the tool is present at DDG? I just can't find it.

Thanks. That looks great. I think I'll switch to DDG.

I don't support startpage because they don't support anyone but themselves. Not through opensource code nor through monetary support. They are also doing the same thing as scroogle yet scroogle was shut down, but whatever their 'special' relationship is with Google keeps them running.

http://www.lxle.net/forums/discussion/889/lxles-default-search-engine-doing-the-most-good-

It may not fix exactly into the topic ddg vs google vs startpage, but it fits very well into the searchpage topic:^^
Do you know a searchpage that can search for strings containing special characters exactly?

I was recently searching for a way to use a pretty new protocol and was not able to make any web search engine only show results containing "msteams://".