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Do they have a contract with google? Or how do they get around captchas and cease and desists?

• vanadium 8y ago
  "Startpage acts as an intermediary between you and Google, so your searches are completely private. Startpage submits your query to Google anonymously, then returns Google results to you privately. Google never sees you and does not know who made the request; they only see Startpage." From: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/158/22/what-is-the-relationship-between-startpage-and-google https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic... More: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/22/google https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/...
  • owaty 8y ago
    This one answers my question better: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/147/22/why-does-google-let-startpage-access-their-search-results https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic... > Why does Google let Startpage access their search results? > Startpage.com has a contract with Google that allows us to use their official "Syndicated Web Search" feed, so we have to pay them to get those results. So what is their own business model? Do they show ads? (I disabled adblock but didn't see any.)
    • saagarjha 8y ago
      Yes, they show non-personalized sponsored links: https://www.startpage.com/en/search/privacy-policy.html https://www.startpage.com/en/search/privacy-policy.html