Startpage? (based in Netherlands). I mean it’s a frontend for google, but ecosia is a frontend for bing. And startpage has a no log policy which beats ecosia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago) (1 children)

System1 acquired Startpage and they are based in the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Well that's a bummer, but at least the company who owns Startpage will remain in the Netherlands for now it seems.

https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4521498779156-What-it-means-for-Startpage-now-that-System1-is-a-publicly-traded-company

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Startpage gives very good results, I recall reading somewhere that they use search results from Google, but I honestly don't know. I use it over Ecosia because it has slightly better results and is more privacy focused. Plus I never click any adverts, so Ecosia wouldn't generate an awful lot of trees from my usage haha.

I also used Qwant, but the search results weren't great for more complex search queries.