Bing any better than Google in this regard?
Yes, but Startpage, using Google, seems to behave a lot better than Google’s front-end, as well.
I don’t like that all major news stories are routed through MSN (for Microsoft), though. You have to dig to find the original website that same news article appeared on.
Both Bing and Google want to deanonymize you, which happens when visiting an MSN site, while having logged into Windows with a Windows account, with Bing/Microsoft. Of course, you know Google sees you when you arrive ar any site using its metrics/cookies, too.
Neither DuckDuckGo, nor Startpage, directly give your private information to Bing or Google, but since the search just happened, they could eventually tie your IP or cookies to you as “that guy who searched anonymously on Bing or Google, through DuckDuckGo or Startpage.
Do note Startpage has an excellent option called a proxy, which lets you virtually visit a website in their results, without ever getting cookies or having your IP logged. In essence, you are visiting the website on Startpage’s desktop browser, this way, sort of looking over their shoulder.
Not really ....Bing keeps trying to foist off its AI wizard on me with all kind of BS. I just want my original terms searched and those answers that contain them - only that.
I always appreciated Alta Vista where it recognized more specific queries. If you wanted exact phrases to be found, put them in quotation marks, and that’s what you got. When I’ve done that in other engines, the question marks disappear and the results will find the words, but not necessarily together. Overall, if seemed better.