A few days ago, Rowan noted one advantage of searching using the Ixquick engine instead of Google. While Google retains your IP address along with the content of your search terms in order to sell information about your location and preferences to advertisers and possibly others, Ixquick does not collect and therefore does not share your IP address. Your search with Ixquick remains private.
In three days, Ixquick will be rolling out an additional privacy feature to its search engine: proxy searching. After each of Ixquick’s search results, a “proxy” link will be added. If you click that link, you’ll visit the website indicated in the search results, but you’ll travel through Ixquick’s computers to do so. That way, the website you visit won’t be able to see and collect your IP address and all the location information that goes along with it. The website will see Ixquick’s IP address instead.
The incorporation of a proxy surfing option through a search engine will make Ixquick more convenient than existing proxy services like Anonymouse that you must seek out before searching, and will make it less intimidating than software packages like Tor that promise anonymized surfing but require that you download, install and configure specialized software on your own computer first.
Thanks, i’ll use it.
I wonder how long until they make this kind of thing illegal.
It would rather troublesome to outlaw and enforce, but they could still try. More likely they would set up a compromised proxy through a front company and see what people do with it. Whoever They turn out to be.