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Ixquick (styled “ixquick”) is a metasearch engine based in New York and the Netherlands.〔"(Ixquick Search )." ''http://www.metamend.com''.〕 Founded by David Bodnick in 1998, Ixquick is owned by Surfboard Holding BV of the Netherlands, which acquired the internet company in 2000.〔"(New Ixquick International Search Engine Unveiled )." ''http://www.hventure.nl.'' March 23, 2005.〕 Ixquick and its sibling project Startpage.com reached their latest record (28 day average) daily direct queries of 5.7 million on February 2, 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ixquick/StartPage Direct queries per day (28 Day Average) )〕 Ixquick also provides the stand-alone proxy service, Ixquick Proxy, which has also been incorporated into both its Ixquick and Startpage search engines allowing users the option to open all search results via proxy. Ixquick is developing a privacy protecting email service, called ''StartMail''. ==History== Ixquick was re-launched on March 23, 2005, with many new features including a redesigned metasearch algorithm, an international phone, and lowest-price directory.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=www.marketingshift.com )〕 On June 27, 2006, following Scroogle, Ixquick.com began to delete private details of its users. IP addresses and other personal information were deleted within 48 hours of a search.〔"http://ixquick.com/eng/protect_privacy_qa.html Privacy Q&A"〕 Ixquick has stated that it does not share its users' "personal information" with other search engines or with the provider of its sponsored results.〔"(Ixquick: Privacy Policy )"〕 Ixquick was awarded the first European Privacy Seal (EuroPriSe) for its privacy practices on July 14, 2008. This European Union-sponsored initiative guarantees compliance with EU laws and regulations on data security and privacy, through a series of design and technical audits.〔"(About Europrise. )"〕 It was re-certified together with Startpage in 2009, 2011 and 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=EuroPrise )〕 On January 28, 2009, Ixquick completely ended the recording of user IP addresses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ixquick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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