707 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Damien Alleyne, 3 years agoIt works great. However, it is missing a very important feature: search suggestions. The add-on hasn't been updated in 2 years, so it seems we'll never get this feature. One will have to create this feature on the Mycroft Project.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for choosing Startpage! Search suggestions are available as part of our our other extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/startpage-privacy-protection/.
We might consider adding support for suggestions here, too, but our team is currently focused on major upgrades to our search experience. Thanks for the suggestion and for carving about privacy! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17299245, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ysan, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15153131, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13095681, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by aths, 3 years agoIt seriously shows ads first in the search results. I always need to scroll past the ads to reach the actual results. It refuses to show the search results & gets broken, when ads-block or similar extensions like no-script are in action. Quite unexpected behavior considering the name "private search engine".
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for trying Startpage. Ads are how we are able to provide a free private service. It might interest you to know that the team has been hard at work overhauling and improving the search experience. Among those improvements launching this month will be a reduced-ad experience on mobile.
From time to time, we do test the performance of our search results with extensions like the ones you mention and we haven’t found any major issues. In responding to your comment, we tested with several, including NoScript, and were able to pull up results just fine. With NoScript, the menus above the results disappeared, but that is to be expected unless you add us as a trusted domain. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at support@startpage.com.
Thanks for caring about privacy! - Rated 5 out of 5by Christopher Rebecca Lee Tate, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Default, 3 years agoResults are as great as Google's. Themes are awesome, search is reasonably fast (I've seen many users complain about results loading speed, but if you aren't a crybaby counting millisecond by millisecond you will agree it is fast). Litterally store no cookies but the one for settings and has a great privacy policy. Lastly, based in Europe. I would recommend anyone to use this over google or any other search engine.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12334793, 3 years agoso much better than duckduckgo. I am using Startpage for many years now and Startpage always shows relevant results where duckduck does not.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17225535, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Torsten, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by leads, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dana, 3 years agoThis is best search browser cause they don't save or use your search history. After using it for over 10 years found out this is best to use to stop profile your search history.
- Rated 5 out of 5by KittyBoy421, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13218325, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by bothandeach, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by paulzzy, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16586159, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13952254, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13490713, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17206340, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sue, 3 years agoI have been using Startpage for several years now and I like it. I find it to be a good search engine and it gives more results than some others I've tried.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17174054, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by HOREX59, 3 years ago