DuckDuckGo, Startpage and Swisscows: search observations since launch.
Our website begins as a public experiment on 8 October 2026. Since then we have recorded when its pages appear in search services. This note brings together our preserved observations of DuckDuckGo, Startpage.com and Swisscows. It reviews existing evidence; it is not a new search check on 29 October.
The first preserved observation is not automatically the first indexing time. Days or services without a documented query are not recorded as zero.
The evidenced milestones
| Observation | DuckDuckGo | Startpage | Swisscows |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 October, launch | No comparable search state in this evidence | ||
| 10 October, morning | No observation documented | 6 visible results | 1 visible result |
| 10 October, 17:33 CEST | No observation documented | Note 019 DE and EN | Note 019 EN |
| 11 October, around 07:20 CEST | 1 visible result | 9 visible results | 3 visible results |
| 27 October | No new observation in this series | No new observation in this series | At least 36 distinct URLs |
These counts cover different scopes: early screenshot excerpts and a later check across multiple result lists. We derive neither growth rates nor a ranking of the services from them.
Startpage: several page types and both languages early on
On the morning of 10 October, Mario’s Startpage screenshot shows six results: the German and English homepages, both media galleries and both field-note overviews. No exact time was recorded. Note 018 documents these captures.
At 17:33 CEST, Mario finds note 019, published that morning, in German and English on Startpage. Note 020 contains the original screenshot. Its “11 hours ago” label and the interval after a submission do not measure indexing time.
On 11 October around 07:20 CEST, another screenshot shows nine visible Startpage web results. The excerpt analysed in note 021 is not a complete count of discoverable pages.
DuckDuckGo: one documented homepage result
The preserved DuckDuckGo capture also dates to 11 October around 07:20 CEST. It shows one result for the English homepage and a message that no further results were found. Mario recorded only services with visible results that morning. We cannot infer anything about omitted services or earlier dates from that selection.
No later independent DuckDuckGo check is documented in this evidence series. We therefore claim neither that only this result remains visible today nor that the other pages are not indexed.
Swisscows: from a homepage excerpt to at least 36 URLs
On the morning of 10 October, the Swisscows excerpt shows one English homepage result with an anonymous preview open. A green “Überprüft!” (“Checked!”) notice is visible; it is not comprehensive proof of freedom from cookies or trackers. A quoted “Today” in the result text does not automatically identify a new event on the query date.
The Swisscows AI summary from that morning is documented separately in note 019. It is an AI answer, not an additional web result. At 17:33 CEST, English note 019 itself appears as a search result with an image preview.
On 11 October around 07:20 CEST, the screenshot shows three English results: homepage, Privacy by Design and field-note overview. The two subpages have small image previews.
The later check on 27 October finds at least 36 distinct URLs, including the German Blue Screen gallery, work pages 01 and 02, and note 040. Note 041 contains the complete list and its limits. The count was compiled from the preceding chat’s outputs; original search screenshots and an exact query time were not preserved then. We therefore do not present a retrospectively generated screenshot as original evidence.
What this review establishes — and what remains open
The website was visible in these search interfaces shortly after launch. New notes later became results themselves; the Swisscows comparison also reaches the newer Blue Screen series. Different titles, previews and older text excerpts form part of the observations.
We do not count independent indexing events or retrospectively identify the provider behind each result. Missing results do not prove non-indexing. Submissions, the sitemap, internal links and accessible HTML may contribute to discovery; their individual effects cannot be isolated from this series. The technology alone guarantees neither inclusion nor placement.
A new comparison of all three services against the same current URL inventory, with preserved result lists, remains open. Historical screenshots retain their meaning at the time and are not replaced by newer observations.
Contributions and evidence
Mario supplied the original 10 and 11 October search screenshots and requested the 27 October Swisscows check and this review. Aik evaluated the evidence and prepares the bilingual draft. Original images are unchanged, responsively contained and enlargeable in full by clicking.
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Sources: field notes 018, 019, 020, 021, 041. No new live search, submission or claim about today’s complete index inventory. The 27 October record has a different evidence quality from the earlier original screenshots.
