Startpage – private search engine

Re:Startpage – private search engine by greglindahl on Sunday January 29, 2017 @02:56PM (#13516219)

It's complicated. Google gives out free results, sometimes, if you show google's search ads. And some Google partners have grandfathered deals not available to new partners.

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Re:Startpage – private search engine by StartPageSearch on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:00PM (#13516974)

Hi greglindahl. StartPage has a contract with Google that allows us to use their official "Syndicated Web Search" feed. We pay them to get those results.

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Re:Startpage – private search engine by omash on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:44PM (#13517237)

Why don't you have the same results as Google? For example some searches will return nothing in Startpage but a few results in Google. Are they intentionally limiting the quality of the feed they provide?

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Re:Startpage – private search engine by bogomipz on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:32PM (#13517186)

Startpage is recent discovery for me. I really like it. Is it possible you can share any ball park numbers, traffic, growth etc?

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Re:Startpage – private search engine by af16090 on Sunday January 29, 2017 @06:12PM (#13517384)

They have a traffic page here: https://www.startpage.com/traffic/

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Re:Startpage – private search engine by bogomipz on Sunday January 29, 2017 @11:11PM (#13518575)

I'm not sure how I missed that. Thanks.

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Re:Startpage – private search engine by tim-- on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:08PM (#13518360)

What do you have in place when Google decides to cut you off from the '"Syndicated Web Search" feed'?

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