I previously posted about search engine Ask.com’s AskEraser privacy feature. After reading this article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Several Facts about Google and HTTPS, I learned about the ixquick search engine which appears to have an even better privacy policy.
ixquick highlights:
- doesn’t record your IP address
- creates NO unique cookie IDs
- privacy data deleted within 48 hours
- uses POST instead of GET requests to further mask search data
- EU endorsed (and EU has some of the best privacy laws in the world)
On a side note, here’s the 2005 CNET article where Google was used to discover several personal details about Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
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