What is "ixquick"

Ixquick (styled "ixquick") is a metasearch engine based in New York and the Netherlands. which highlights privacy as its distinguishing feature from other internet search engines.

Founded by David Bodnick in 1998, Ixquick is owned by Surfboard Holding BV of the Netherlands, which acquired the internet company in 2000. 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.

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.