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Ixquick

 

Ixquick is a metasearch engine based in New York, New York and the Netherlands.^[2] 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 the search engine in 2000.^[3]

Ixquick has announced that it is developing an email service,^[4] however no further details have been revealed.

Ixquick Search

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

On June 27, 2006, Ixquick.com became the first search engine to delete private details of its users.^[7] IP addresses and other personal information are deleted within 48 hours of a search.^[8] Ixquick also does not share its users' personal information with other search engines or with the provider of its sponsored results.^[9][10]

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.^[11]

As of January 28, 2009, Ixquick no longer records users' IP addresses at all.^[12][13] "Ixquick uses only one cookie called "preferences". This cookie is to remember the search preferences you saved for your next visit. It expires after not visiting Ixquick for 90 days and is anonymous."^[14]"…”