StartPage Review - Free Android Application
While the privacy of your search history is an important concern, a private search engine offers you greater control over cookies. By using the Startpage extension, you can prevent trackers from being placed on your search activity and enable cookies only from certain domains. Startpage replaces invasive social defaults by providing greater transparency and control. It also ranks websites on a scale of one to five, from "not at all private" to "not at all secure".
While it's not as secure as a private search engine, users can rest assured that their queries will remain anonymous. The Startpage software submits queries to Google anonymously, and the results are returned privately. The company never reveals the identity of the user. The company, which used to be known as Ixquick, has won numerous privacy awards, including the first European Privacy Seal in 2008. It also received the EuroPriSe award in 2011, and has now been awarded it again.
The StartPage search engine features several innovative features, such as anonymous views. You can even search images and videos through Startpage. The service does not index social sites or site-specific search results. Users are required to agree to StartPage's Terms of Use before starting a search. Although StartPage gets results from Google, the search results are presented differently on StartPage. In addition, they are paid by advertisers. StartPage has 425,000 subscribers.