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Ixquick is a powerful metasearch engine based out of New York and the Netherlands, and has provided over 120 million searches since 2004. 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. Ixquick returns the top-ten results from multiple search engines. It uses a unique “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 maximum 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, an international phone and lowest price directory etc. On June 27, 2006, Ixquick.com became the first search engine to stop recording Privacy details of its users Therefore, any user can now 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.
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