diff --git a/.config/qutebrowser/config.py b/.config/qutebrowser/config.py
index ff6057eea73a6b78a417abc37e85859e37580977..6c7c0f2cba91aac3baa005dbb42378ad05947f7f 100644
--- a/.config/qutebrowser/config.py
+++ b/.config/qutebrowser/config.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ c.tabs.show_switching_delay = 1000
 # used by prepending the search engine name to the search term, e.g.
 # `:open google qutebrowser`.
 # Type: Dict
-c.url.searchengines = {'DEFAULT': 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q={}'}
+c.url.searchengines = {'DEFAULT': 'https://startpage.com/do/search?query={}'}
 
 # Aliases for commands. The keys of the given dictionary are the
 # aliases, while the values are the commands they map to.