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Startpage Search Engine Output Omitting Certain Search Results?

Eugene Volokh | 8.31.2026 12:05 PM

Startpage is a search engine that promotes itself as protecting user privacy; it gathers results via Google and Bing, but:

We submit your search to our search partners on your behalf. They never see your personal information.

You receive results that aren't based on your personal history…. We don't store your searches. We don't build profiles. Once your search is complete, it's gone.

It apparently gets over 2 million visits per day; my friend Adam Holland regularly uses it, which is how I learned about the missing results in some Startpage searches.

Here is one example, the entirety........

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