http://disqus.com/people/fdb7caa8f5c2389871973f798ad25257/enMon, 11 Jun 2007 16:42:03 -0000http://sbspalding.disqus.com/how_to_audit_google8217s_privacy/#comment-1882122Privacy concerns are becoming a major social and legal issue these days.<br>Search engines play an important role in the whole equation.<br>The AOL Privacy Breach last year is just one example of what can happen if search engine user-data are being stored.<br><br>Meta-search engine Ixquick.com's simple solution: "If the data is not stored, users privacy can't be breached”.<br>We are the first search engine to stop recording any privacy details of our users. <br><br>Some background information:<br>-Ixquick is a meta search engine, developed in 1998 in NY, since 2001 part of Surfboard Holding BV.<br>-It offers a simultaneous search in up to 12 of the best search engines. <br>-Ixquick will not share IP addresses with these individual search engines while searching.<br>-Ixquick will delete the IP addresses of the users within 48 hrs.<br><br> In fact we have a program running which opens the log files, deletes the user related IP <br> addresses and overwrites the "old" logfile. Also we took away the unique ID out of our <br> Cookies, the Cookie is only used for remembering the settings on the user's PC. We even <br> overwrite the "old" Cookie if a user has one on his PC from before this privacy initiative. <br><br>Read more on how Ixquick protects Privacy on: <a href="http://ixquick.com/eng/protect_privacy.html" rel="nofollow">http://ixquick.com/eng/protect_privacy.html</a><br><br>Conclusion: <br><a href="http://www.ixquick.com" rel="nofollow">www.ixquick.com</a> offers its users a high quality web search without storing any privacy data...<br><br>Our initiative is being met with overwhelmingly positive response.<br><br>Best Regards,<br>Alex van Eesteren<br><a href="http://Ixquick.com" rel="nofollow">Ixquick.com</a>Alex van EesterenMon, 11 Jun 2007 16:42:03 -0000