diff --git a/searx/engines/startpage.py b/searx/engines/startpage.py
index 7d58f7f01..a91cafa00 100644
--- a/searx/engines/startpage.py
+++ b/searx/engines/startpage.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 
 from lxml import html
 from cgi import escape
+from dateutil import parser
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 import re
 from searx.engines.xpath import extract_text
 
@@ -79,15 +81,44 @@ def response(resp):
 
         title = escape(extract_text(link))
 
-        if result.xpath('./p[@class="desc"]'):
-            content = escape(extract_text(result.xpath('./p[@class="desc"]')))
+        if result.xpath('./p[@class="desc clk"]'):
+            content = escape(extract_text(result.xpath('./p[@class="desc clk"]')))
         else:
             content = ''
 
-        # append result
-        results.append({'url': url,
-                        'title': title,
-                        'content': content})
+        published_date = None
+
+        # check if search result starts with something like: "2 Sep 2014 ... "
+        if re.match("^([1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|3[0-1]) [A-Z][a-z]{2} [0-9]{4} \.\.\. ", content):
+            date_pos = content.find('...')+4
+            date_string = content[0:date_pos-5]
+            published_date = parser.parse(date_string, dayfirst=True)
+
+            # fix content string
+            content = content[date_pos:]
+
+        # check if search result starts with something like: "5 days ago ... "
+        elif re.match("^[0-9]+ days? ago \.\.\. ", content):
+            date_pos = content.find('...')+4
+            date_string = content[0:date_pos-5]
+
+            # calculate datetime
+            published_date = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=int(re.match(r'\d+', date_string).group()))
+
+            # fix content string
+            content = content[date_pos:]
+
+        if published_date:
+            # append result
+            results.append({'url': url,
+                            'title': title,
+                            'content': content,
+                            'publishedDate': published_date})
+        else:
+            # append result
+            results.append({'url': url,
+                            'title': title,
+                            'content': content})
 
     # return results
     return results
diff --git a/searx/tests/engines/test_startpage.py b/searx/tests/engines/test_startpage.py
index 07f13ee27..9a1a09bc7 100644
--- a/searx/tests/engines/test_startpage.py
+++ b/searx/tests/engines/test_startpage.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class TestStartpageEngine(SearxTestCase):
                 </a>
                 <span id='title_stars_2' name='title_stars_2'>  </span>
             </h3>
-            <p class='desc'>
+            <p class='desc clk'>
                 This should be the content.
             </p>
             <p>
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class TestStartpageEngine(SearxTestCase):
                 </a>
                 <span id='title_stars_2' name='title_stars_2'>  </span>
             </h3>
-            <p class='desc'>
+            <p class='desc clk'>
                 This should be the content.
             </p>
             <p>
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class TestStartpageEngine(SearxTestCase):
             <h3>
                 <span id='title_stars_2' name='title_stars_2'>  </span>
             </h3>
-            <p class='desc'>
+            <p class='desc clk'>
                 This should be the content.
             </p>
             <p>