Review by Enschede
Rated 3 out of 5
by Enschede, a year agoCan we get a verbatim option? come on.... What good is privacy if we can't find anything to begin with? Quotations, plus symbols, and ampersands are all ignored, the only operator that works is the minus operator
Edit:
Well, some work, as for it working the same as bing that would be correct, because they don't work on bing either. As for google, in combination with verbatim mode they actually do work. On startpage it depends, the site: filetype: and intitle: operators work, as does the - operator, but the "" and + operators, which are essentially verbatim operators, are generally ignored entirely, which is extremely annoying tbh
Edit:
Well, some work, as for it working the same as bing that would be correct, because they don't work on bing either. As for google, in combination with verbatim mode they actually do work. On startpage it depends, the site: filetype: and intitle: operators work, as does the - operator, but the "" and + operators, which are essentially verbatim operators, are generally ignored entirely, which is extremely annoying tbh
Developer response
posted a year agoAdvanced searches on Startpage, including exact match, perform the same as on Google and Bing, which is to say that they work, but are not applied in 100% of searches. More information can be found here:
https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4521473758228-Advanced-Search-on-Startpage
If you wish to discuss anything further, feel free to reach out at support@startpage.com. Thanks for caring about privacy.
https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4521473758228-Advanced-Search-on-Startpage
If you wish to discuss anything further, feel free to reach out at support@startpage.com. Thanks for caring about privacy.