Joe Offer wrote: Try it for searching figurehead carver Mudcat.

I did that when you posted, and several times again since. The results are wildly inconsistent. One thing it does know about me is my approximate location, from the IP address, so it could give different results in the US or wherever.

The most interesting thing is that it tells me where it's getting each result from. Initially they came mainly from Quant (another meta-search-engine, European, that's 60% Bing). This morning it's all from 'Google cache'. Odd.

I've set Firefox to use Quant by default for a while. No AI, and the results are presented in the old style - much the same as DuckDuckGo. But, as you'd expect, it's not as good at guessing what I had in mind.

Essentially, I don't think a meta-search-engine that claims privacy - and therefore not to hold data about me - and also claims to give more 'relevant' results, is plausible. One that doesn't sell my data to advertisers is, but then what's its business model?