I appreciate the heads up but Startpage/Ixquick is still good for finding images and keeping you out of the Google pile. Having said that; I added the duck to my Firefox browser and will keep it in mind for searches not showing what I think it should.
I, too, use Start Page even though it teamed up with google.
What I like about it, is it’s privacy policy found on their home page. Now, we all know they lie, but according to their stated policy, it is a very secure search engine.
For what it’s worth.