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saurav_k

Ixquick ( Ixquick Metasearch ), is a meta-search engine established in 1998. It uses the search results of different popular search engines to provide its own set of results which are most relevant. This search engine supports 17 languages.

Ixquick is developed by a Dutch Company which recently upgraded it as the world’s first search engine that provides complete privacy to users. The tag line of this search engine is “world’s most private search engine”.

Most (if not all) search engines stores the IP addresses of each user and return them a cookie in order to track search behaviours.

"Ixquick is the first search engine that does not even store IP addresses temporarily," said Ixquick CEO Robert Beens.

This technology will prevent the threats from search robots by differentiating them from normal users. Search robots perform automated searches to acquire privacy details.

For detailed information on this - Dutch search engine offers ‘total privacy’ - Sify.com

nilact

Thanks for info !! Same kind of Search Engine is Dogpile which aggregate the search result of all major search engines..

cool_techie_tvm

Dont forget to checkout Mamma Metasearch - The Mother of All Search Engines, the mother of all search engines. But i think this privacy thingy is only available in Ixquick Metasearch

nilact

I am not sure whether privacy thing is available with Dogpile or not.

saurav_k

yes, thats what they(ixquick) claim. actually they dont store IP addresses for more than 24 hours maybe ...

jia123

Hello,

I din`t know that, thanks for sharing this buddy, it sounds great


Regards,
jia123

cool_techie_tvm

Do u know that they introduced this system of deleting user details after 48 hours only by June 27 2006? It is given in the wikipedia page. It has been in existence since 2004.

Ixquick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

saurav_k

hmm... but it looks like some new thing by the link i provided in the first post ... some changes must have been made that it made a news ...