Great Tip! I have been in IT for 26 years and manage several websites and I also can recommend http://ixquick.com or the (English only), Google enhanced version at http://startpage.com .
There is no fee and all you have to do is go to it and use it. It is free. They make money by serving a few ads... but do not collect information about you or your searches. They act as a proxy server, (passing along your search request to the search engine and then collecting the results and passing that to you, kind of like an anonymous go-between), showing the search engines their ip address and search history which isolates you and your history from the search engine's server logs. Your computer's internet connection has an IP address that is unique in the world and this is the address that is being tracked by the search engines. They watch what you search for and then serve you advertisements based on your search history. If you have the Google toolbar installed, (or many others), they record EVERY WEBSITE YOU VISIT and serve you ads based on that. The worrisome thing is that they keep compiling this information on you and eventually they know your interests and more about you than you would be comfortable with. Many "free" toolbars are in fact, spying on you to gather information about your surfing habits so they can make money trying to sell you things they think you would be interested in buying. For example, I used the Google toolbar and because I access my web server remotely every day, I was getting ads constantly for web hosting services on the right side of my search results page. Ixquick still serves a few ads, but does not save your searches or your ip address. It is a great tool and I also highly recommend it. Curtis -----Original Message----- From: PTFerrance [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: CS>Re: Search Engines No Melly. Just go to https://www.ixquick.com/ and sign up. PT From: Melly Bag [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CS>Re: Search Engines PT, Does the use of IX Quick require a fee to be paid? Thanks. Melly --- On Thu, 5/24/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: silver-digest Digest V2012 #213 To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 11:24 AM No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2176 / Virus Database: 2425/5019 - Release Date: 05/24/12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2176 / Virus Database: 2425/5019 - Release Date: 05/24/12
