New search engine option for privacy concerns (ixquick.com)

IXQuick.com Video ^ | Jan 26, 2010 | ConservativeMind

[ConservativeMind]

If you don't like the idea of Google, Yahoo, or Bing recording all of your searches, matching them to your hits on webpages from the results you click on or from statistical logging (Free Republic uses Google Analytics which records your "hit" even if you don't use Google), then pairing that back to your email login with their service (Gmail), then finally back to your IP address from your internet provider, then have I got the search engine for you.

IXQuick.com is a secure metasearch engine, meaning they combine searches against many engines into their one interface. Unlike all other engines, your search terms, search results, and even the pictures you view within their service, can all be done securely back to your computer through an SSL connection. IXQuick does not record your IP address, does not pass it on to the search engines they hit against, does not use cookies, and is independently audited by authorities in the EU to assure they meet strict privacy laws there.

Tomorrow, IXQuick.com is launching a new service that will allow anyone to also securely and anonymously view the search result links through a "proxy" connection--this means that you can view virtually any webpage without that site knowing a thing about you. Have you wanted to troll pages on DU or the DailyKOS without them knowing with computer at what time logged on? Now you can with ease!

Below are two links to this information. The first is to the privacy information page at IXQuick. The second is to a video on YouTube explaining how the proxy will work when released tomorrow.

Stop allowing Google to profile you when the US government won't even do that for terrorists.

[ConservativeMind]

IXQuick.com’s Privacy Policy:

https://ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy.html

YouTube video on how to use the new proxy service:

http://www.youtube.com/ixquicksearch

[max americana]

“No, no. Well, yes. Sure. Yahoo was doing it. But that wasn’t the reason Google went along. You know, Republicans hate Google. We’re overwhelmingly registered Democratic, so we’re doing what we can to make peace with them before they clobber us. This isn’t P.I.I.” — Personally Identifying Information, the toxic smog of the information age — “It’s just metadata. So it’s only slightly evil.”

http://www.scroogle.org/doctorow.html

[catnipman]

Just tried it for the search I always use to test my business.

Tried my search on google, bing, and IXQuick.

I have no idea how IXQuick comes up with their rankings, but they bore no relationship whatsoever to the google and bing searches.

It really makes me wonder what IXQuick is up to, because whatever it is, it has nothing to do with producing relevant searches.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

You can block Google Analytics and any other tracker by using the Ghostery Add-On in Firefox browser.

[ShadowAce]

[ConservativeMind]

Try turning off some of the search engines they use. You can even trim it totally down to just “Bing” or “Yahoo” if you want.

There is an alternate way to have them categorize the results if you go to the preferences setup area.

They may be blending the top result from a dozen search engines and sites like “Wikipedia” they use won’t have some information we expect from a search engine.

[JerseyHighlander]

thanks for posting. I’ve been using IxQuick for over a year based on a freeper suggestion and have been happy with it so far.