[RealStickman]

Starpage is now owned by an advertising company. I wouldn't rely on them not tracking me.

[smush]

I have also hopped to Qwant / DDG for their proxied Bing search.

Keeping that in mind, doing a !s bang is probably better privacy-wise (bonus - you get the same results) vs a !g bang, even if it is no longer as good as it was.