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>>> http://www.ixquick.com/
Ixquick is a metasearch engine based in New York and the Netherlands,
and has provided over 120 million searches since 2004. [1] Ixquick was
founded by David Bodnick (currently Ixquick's lead "Technologist") in
1998, from New York. It is now owned by a Dutch company - Surfboard
Holding BV, which acquired this search engine in 2000. [2]
Ixquick returns the top ten results from multiple search engines. It
uses a "Star System" to rank its results - by awarding one star for
every result that has been returned from a search engine. Thereby, the
top search results are the ones that have been returned from the most
search engines. Ixquick also can search in 17 languages, including
Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish,
French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. Each language version
includes local search engines.
Ixquick was re-launched on March 23, 2005, with many new features
including a re-engineered metasearch algorithm, and an international
phone and lowest-price directory. [3]
On June 27, 2006, Ixquick.com became the first search engine to delete
private details of its users [4]. IP addresses and other personal
information are deleted within 48 hours of a search. [5] Ixquick also
does not share its users' personal information with other search
engines or with the provider of its sponsored results. [6]
Ixquick was awarded the first European Privacy Seal (EuroPriSe) for
its privacy practices on July 14, 2008. This European Union-sponsored
initiative guarantees compliance with EU laws and regulations on data
security and privacy, through a series of design and technical
audits.[7]
As of January 29th 2009 Ixquick no longer records users' IP addresses at all.[8]
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixquick
