Startpage
The world's most private search engine
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- Developed by Startpage BV
- Proprietary and Free product.
- Average rating of 3.4
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Startpage fetches its results from Google while obfuscating all personally identifiable information from your query.
[Edited by Kapp96, March 26] Fixed spelling errors
Google results via a proxy, Anonymity & privacy, based in the Netherlands.
Sold to an ad company called System1.
I used startpage year or so ago and was happy with the results. But now? Someone explain to me How you can trust a private search engine to be 100% private when it's Now owned by an ads company like System 1? Basically, You Can't.. why would ad company want to offer a service that would cut out the very job they exist from/for Collecting data, info. To cram selected ads at you.. and if believe that they aren't collecting data then... Then I have a pet 10' python you can trust to sleep around your neck and you'd be safe and cozy...
When DuckDuckGo is not showing the StackOverflow questions you need, but you don't want to go to Google.
If you can not find porn—as in any result just to test it—are you really a good alternative to Google???
This is an excellent search engine and should be supported. It places personal privacy above all else, and even has a link in the search results which will access the searched site through a proxy. Wonderful.
Agreed. Google improved the internet with excellent search results; Startpage takes us to the next logical step - relevant search results MINUS the privacy intrusions. Google actually has the resources to send out cars and photograph whole city streets - if your government did the same, would it be OK with you? Think about that...
Reply written almost 10 years ago
Well, that's probably not the perfect analogy. I wouldn't care about the government photographing city streets-- after all, it was the government that built those streets in the first place. But I get what you're saying. Search engines that emphasize privacy should become more popular.
Reply written almost 10 years ago
Yeah I guess I got on a bit of a rant there. The real issue is that I'm shocked (frightened) not just with how much data Google collects, but how comfortable people are with handing over that info voluntarily. Google (and facebook et al) capitalizes on how LITTLE we as users value privacy and anonymity. I think we've seen lots of good things come about from the big G, but we're reaching the point where we're trading off more than we really should. It's a gray area and everyone will have a different "point of no return".
The creator of Duckduckgo (another awesome search engine) summarized this really well in an essay he wrote at http://donttrack.us/ , which I think every web reader should read.
Reply written almost 10 years ago