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Search Engine Ceases to Record Privacy Details
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Haarlem, Netherlands - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 29, 2006 - As personal privacy concerns create growing alarm about the freedom of the Internet, the Ixquick metasearch engine has developed a process whereby it will will permanently delete all personal search details gleaned from its users from the log files.
Alex van Eesteren, spokesman for Ixquick explained, ''This new feature of our search engine ensures both optimal privacy protection and maximum search performance for our customers, since they will be able to search using the 11 best search engines without their personal data being recorded.''
As digital technology increasingly pervades the world, more and more personal details are being stored electronically, many of them by search engines. While searching the Internet, search engines register the time of searches, the terms used, the sites visited and IP addresses. In many cases, the IP address makes it possible to trace the computer, and in turn the household, that carried out the search.
Personal details are often retained for long periods by search engines and are of interest to commercial parties, governments, and even criminals. Mr. van Eesteren continued, ''Many search engines openly use this data for commercial purposes. It seems only to be a question of time before the data gets misused. Therefore we have decided to permanently delete all personal search records. If the data is not stored, users privacy can't be breached.''
Ixquick's Meta Search feature enables the user to simultaneously search 11 of the best search engines. However, Ixquick does not share the user's personal data with these individual search engines in any circumstances.
In addition, Ixquick will delete the users' IP addresses and 'unique user IDs' from its own 'Log Files.' Mr. van Eesteren continued, ''Therefore, any user can use Ixquick.com to search in a combination of the best search engines secure in the knowledge that they can enjoy complete protection of their privacy.''
Ixquick is a global, award-winning Meta Search Engine based in Haarlem The Netherlands, combining 11 international and local search engines for each query, resulting in more relevant hits.
To learn more, please visit: www.ixquick.com/press.
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