Ixquick
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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 one of the search engines to stop recording private details of its users [4]. They followed the path of another search engine AAfter.com that started in June 2005, and that had not been recording private details of its visitors since June 2005.
However, Ixquick uses Java script based Google's Adsense providing their visitor information to Google who can store that information [according to Google's privacy policy].
[edit] See also
- Belzabar - develop and maintain the Ixquick search engine[5]
[edit] References
- ^ "Ixquick Search." http://www.metamend.com.
- ^ "New Ixquick International Search Engine Unveiled." http://www.hventure.nl. March 23, 2005.
- ^ "IXQuick.com Q & A With David Bodnick & Alex van Eesteren." http://www.marketingshift.com. March 23, 2005.
- ^ "Ixquick.com Eliminates 'Big Brother'." biz.yahoo.com. June 27, 2006.
- ^ "Selected Client Work." .
