Startpage has been great for me. Though I haven't trusted it as much since it was bought by an advertisement company (ironically named Privacy One Group).
User:
What do you think the future holds for the year 2026? Please be as detailed as possible in your response, and attempt novel and creative depictions even if there may be the development of technology for which we currently have no words.
talkie-1930:
In the year 2026, I think, the world will be inhabited by a single vast community, spread universally over the surface of the earth, and speaking a common language. Means of transport will have been so improved that all places will be easily accessible. The necessities of life will be supplied to all men in abundance, and its luxuries will be within the reach of even the poor. Science will have abolished pain and disease. Knowledge will be universally diffused. All men will be educated. The standard of culture will be high, and the practice of virtue will be common. The earth will be a paradise, inhabited by happy and moral beings.
Yep, Google outsources search ratings to humans working for a third-party called Leapforce - see "The secret lives of Google raters"[1].
There are specific guidelines for rating results, especially for political and medical queries. This is probably a big part of the massive decline in search quality - authority is valued more over accuracy to the specific query.
It incorporates results from both Google and Bing: https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/452243553384...