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I'm using Startpage on my desktop at home. I like the general idea but have noticed that it is very slow at times (enough so that I have an alternative search engine I use when I get "annoyed"). Overall it's pretty good though. Basically a privacy wrapper around Google (which of course is also likely the explanation for the slowness and a big danger as they could be hosed by Google pretty quickly).

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Hi Kriro. For image search, DuckDuckGo may be a hair faster because it uses Amazon AWS servers. But other searches should be about the same speed.

Please contact us if you see this happening so we can address it.

A recent article did a speed comparison test of StartPage vs. DuckDuckGo, along with other comparisons. See: http://securityspread.com/2016/10/24/duckduckgo-startpage-20...

I think the search is not particulary slow, but since they have the new design they load some script which delays showing the results significantly (like 2 seconds). When blocking the script, searching is super fast but the pagination is broken. That's what annoys me the most.

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