Startpage
The world's most private search engine
What is Startpage?
Why did we create Startpage.com?
As kids, we’re all taught not to touch stuff that doesn’t belong to us. It’s a good guideline. So why are online companies harvesting our personal data without our consent? They shouldn’t. That’s why we’re developing online tools that help you stay in control of your personal information. Search is done. Expect other private versions of common digital services soon. Why? Because it’s our belief that personal data should be your data, not Big Data. Period.
How we made search private
You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search. So we’re paying them to use their brilliant search results in order to remove all trackers and logs. The result: The world’s best and most private search engine. Only now you can search without ads following you around, recommending products you’ve already bought. And no more data mining by companies with dubious intentions. We want you to dance like nobody’s watching and search like nobody’s watching.
No personal data storage
We don’t collect or share your personal information. Ever. There’s literally no data about you on our servers. None. We can’t profile you, and we can’t be forced to hand over your data to authorities, simply because we don’t have any data to hand over.
Anonymous View
Clicking search results means leaving the protection of Startpage.com. This could lead to a barrage of cookies being installed on your device. That’s why we developed the "Anonymous View" feature. With "Anonymous View" you can visit search results in full privacy, and keep on browsing: They’ll never know you were there. You’ll find the feature next to every search result.
No filter bubble
Other search engines use your search habits to serve you results they think you want, essentially trapping you in an echo chamber of results. With Startpage.com, you break through the filter bubble to see a wider variety of results.
Startpage Features
Startpage information
Supported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Encryption
- Anonymity
- Web Search Engine
- Privacy Protection
- international-phone-search
- Web Browser
- private-search
- Image Search Engine
- Search Engine
- proxy-search
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.
Keeps stopping me from fine tuning my search, says it's "bot protection". Very annoying.
Startpage does not allow disabling the Anonymous View feature, but I still prefer it to Google.
https://www.startpage.com/en/about-us
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.