Startpage
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Startpage, also known as Startpage.com, is a Netherlands-based search engine website that highlights privacy as its distinguishing feature. The website advertises that it allows users to obtain Bing Search and Google Search results while protecting users' privacy by not storing personal information or search data and removing all trackers. Startpage.com also includes an Anonymous View browsing feature that allows users the option to open search results via proxy for increased anonymity. Startpage is owned and operated by Surfboard Holding BV, which is majority owned by System1, an American internet advertising company.
Startpage, also known as Startpage.com, is a Netherlands-based search engine website that highlights privacy as its distinguishing feature. The website advertises that it allows users to obtain Bing Search and Google Search results while protecting users' privacy by not storing personal information or search data and removing all trackers. Startpage.com also includes an Anonymous View browsing feature that allows users the option to open search results via proxy for increased anonymity. Startpage is owned and operated by Surfboard Holding BV, which is majority owned by System1, an American internet advertising company. ==History== File:Startpage 2009.png|First Startpage logo, until 2015 File:StartPage logo.png|Second Startpage logo, until 2018 File:Startpage.com logo.svg|Third Startpage logo, until 2021 File:Startpage 2021.svg|Fourth Startpage logo, current ==Features== Startpage uses results from Google, for which it pays. As of July 2020, Startpage allows searches in 82 languages, including Bengali, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Search results don’t include the carousels at the top of Google searches and instead go straight to the results. The website has tabs for web searches as well as tabs for image and video searches. In November 2019, Startpage added a tab for news. According to the company, news searches are "not curated or personalized" and "every user who looks up the same term at the same time gets the same news". In June 2022, the company added "Instant Answers", a feature that displays information directly on the search engine for topics such as weather, maps and Wikipedia. Unlike Google, Startpage doesn't offer "featured snippets", which are answers extracted directly from relevant websites. In contrast, Startpage's "Instant Answers" only get information from a dozen websites. ==References== ==External links==
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