Review by jackham800
Rated 4 out of 5
by jackham800, 6 years agoFantastic search engine, really appreciate the ability to get Google-tier results privately and through EU servers. Reviewing the add-on specifically at four stars because of lack of ability to save settings - will change review once this feature becomes available.
718 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by icamefortheshow, 5 hours agoDefinitely better than DuckDuckGo, not sure why DDG gets baked into FF but I have to install an add-on for SP. Guessing DDG is paying to be included??
However while Startpage is my "go first" search choice I end up at Google more than I would like [~30-40%] because SP is not there yet as far as the results go. SP is just not as good Google yet.
Technical topics tend to be where SP struggles the most and the main problem is that Startpage is giving too much weight to older pages. Trying to trouble shoot software and most of the results are from ~2018 happens way too much. Changing "Any time" to "Past year" helps but that can be too short of a time period.
The other main issue is search modifiers are inconsistent, for example a negative modifier Windows -Microsoft may or may not work and the same with using quotes as in "Windows for my house" is a coin flip if I am going to only get results with the exact match or not.
Keep working on it as I would be happy if I never had to use Google again.... - Rated 5 out of 5by 退出中共邪教党团队避疫, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by c3Vja2l0ZHJ5, 12 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Goooog le Morons, 16 days agoeven if web interface is available, any search for any query every time returns NO RESULTS.
absolutely useless stuff for 'search engine' which simply stopped working and isn't being fixed for several months at least.
but what a good thing it was before...
R.I.P, Startpage! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18692226, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18813619, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Davi, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dr. Katty Enriquez Mayo, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17159731, 3 months agowell i like it my only problem dont know if it startpage or firefox but the reader icon and the star in the address bar needs a option to remove delete throw it in trash permanently because it is a annoying piece of garbage dont need it dont want anything ever in the address bar besides what i type in it !! everything i need is in the drop down menu all i need all i want everything else is useless and needs togo especially search bookmarks and search tabs can not stand that garbage !!! get rid of that stupid annoying garbage or at least give people option to not install that garbage it just pisses people off and and clutters my browser with more crap people including i dont want and usally is something i can do with my drop down menu anyway just like worthless widgets this idea is the biggest piece of garbage that does nothing but clutter up a computer with no way to remove that whole prorgram !!!! god how i wish there was a way to remove all wigets from a computer or i wish i knew enough to figure out how to remove wigets app from my computer
Developer response
posted 3 months agoThis sounds like a Firefox UI issue, not a Startpage one. If you need help uninstalling our extension or anything Startpage related, get in touch at support@startpage.com. Hang in there.
And here's where to leave feedback for Firefox to add us as a default option (meaning an extension would not be required to use Startpage as the default search engine in Firefox).
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/add-startpage-private-search-as-option/idi-p/72587 - Rated 5 out of 5by C R TATE, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18441491, 3 months agoUsing google to search but remaining anonymous is ideal. But... only if you like the default search settings.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Wallamander Hucklebee, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16302000, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nighttimecoral, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hollytryx, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Coolio, 5 months agoGoogles results with none of the BS. My search engine of choice and what I advice for people who want privacy!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17848870, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nerthazul, 7 months agoFantastic alternative to google. Has the same quality search results, but unlike google, it doesn't violate your privacy.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bout's Morgan, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by inaneedinternetfreedom, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14668490, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cuby3212, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by adhiwena, 10 months agoI like Startpage, but sadly, it's too slow for me. I guess it's because the server is in California and I'm in SEA. I wish you guys have a SEA server soon. Cheers!
Developer response
posted 10 months agoWe're heard feedback like this before from people in your region. We have forwarded your feedback to our Product Team. Adding server locations in the APAC region isn't currently on the roadmap, but we’ll definitely consider it in the future.
Thanks for caring about privacy!