[notjtrig]

I would guess more of Google's landing page is cached, and it's a smaller page.

I'm getting Google in 0.5-3 secounds, DuckDuckGo in 3-4 secounds, StartPage in 2 secounds. USA 4G 3:30AM

On another note, both Google and DuckDuckGo seem to link directly to search results but actually redirect your broswer to capture the link you clicked. StartPage links directly to search results.

I've asked DuckDuckGo about this and they can't provide a sastifactory answer. Maybe someone could clue me in why that redirect is nessicary, but until then I consider them untrustworthy.

[aaronhoffman]

Isn’t it to mask the search terms that you used? If you go directly to the page the current url including the query would become the referrer

[londons_explore]

No https cross domain referr

[tagawa]

Hi. Sorry you haven't had a satisfactory answer from us - I'll try to do that here.

The click redirects are to stop the subsequent website from seeing a user's search terms, but we only use it for browsers that don't support meta referrer. Even then, we obviously don't collect or share anything via the redirect server, in line with our privacy policy ( https://duckduckgo.com/privacy ). There's a bit more about the redirects here: https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom

Also, it's possible to disable them completely here: http://duckduckgo.com/settings#privacy

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