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Ask.com vs Startpage.com
Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re close.
Former web search and question-answering engine owned by IAC, now showing a farewell page announcing its shutdown on May 1, 2026.
A privacy-focused web search engine that returns Google and Bing results without storing personal information or search history, with an Anonymous View proxy for opening results.
- Company
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Registered in
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Online since
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Audience
- Smaller site
- Smaller site
- Trackers on the homepage
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- Ad trackers
- None
- None
- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- –
- Prices
- No pricing page found
- No pricing page found
- Last price change
- –
- –
- Privacy policy changes
- 0
- 0
- Terms changes
- 0
- 0
- Open positions
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Trackers are what each homepage loads before cookie consent; changes count since we started checking each site weekly. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.