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How can I make Startpage's search results page automatically highlight query keywords used in the search without changing the browser's search tools?

For example, DuckDuckGo automatically highlight almost all query keywords in the search results.

That feature was removed. Per Startpage support:

As of November 2018, the highlighting feature is no longer supported, as it is available in all major browsers.

Just because the browser can do it, doesn't make it convenient to do it as an additional, separate step, so maybe not a great decision on their part. But there it is.

You can try to use this userscript, it basically does exactly what you want. You'll need an extension to run custom userscripts though, like violentmonkey

Edit 1: Here is the content of this userscript in case the link will expire:

// ==UserScript==

// @name           StartPage Beautifier

// @namespace      https://framagit.org/SecT0uch/StartPage-Beautifier

// @description    This greasemonkey UserScript helps the user to focus on the revelant information in the result page. It basically put the search terms in bold.

// @version        1.6

// @author         SecT0uch <pro.ernst@gmail.com>

// @homepageURL    https://framagit.org/SecT0uch/StartPage-Beautifier

// @license        CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

// @copyright      2018+, Jordan ERNST (https://framagit.org/SecT0uch/StartPage-Beautifier)

// @match          https://*.startpage.com/do/*search*

// ==/UserScript==



window.addEventListener ("load", Greasemonkey_main, false);



function Greasemonkey_main () {

    var toClean = ['title:', 'host:', 'url:', 'link:', ' OR', '"'];     // Special chars to exclude from being bolded

    var query = document.getElementById("query").value;             // Search request



    for (var x = 0; x < toClean.length; x++) {

        query = query.replace(new RegExp(toClean[x], 'g'), '');         // Removing special chars from request

    }



    var searchTerms = query.split(' ');                                 // Splitting request string in array

    var searchTerms = searchTerms.filter(String);                       // Remove empty values (fix begin/end/double white spaces)



    var results =  document.querySelectorAll("p.search-item__body");             // Description text (under link)



    // We bold every term in every description :

    for (var i = 0; i < results.length; i++) {

        for (var j = 0; j < searchTerms.length; j++) {

            var term = searchTerms[j];

            results[i].innerHTML = results[i].innerHTML.replace(new RegExp(term, 'gi'), "<strong>$&</strong>");    // $& = matched value.   <b></b> not supported

        }

    }

}