Here’s a search engine that I just found out about. It’s called Ixquick and it’s a metasearch engine, like Mamma or DogPile. When you search Ixquick, it looks through AltaVista/AllTheWeb, Ask Jeeves/Teoma, EntireWeb, Gigablast, Go, MSN, Netscape, Open Directory, Overture, Wikipedia, WiseNut, and Yahoo!, bringing you the combined results all on one page.

While it certainly has some nice features, like giving you the option to have your search term(s) highlighted on the resulting page or like providing you a narrower focus (theoretically more accurate) in your search results (a recent search of mine got “63 unique top-ten pages selected from at least 7,089,054 matching results”), the most popular feature right now is something they DON’T do.

They don’t collect any personal data on you or your searching. When your session is done, they delete your information. They are the “first search engine to stop recording privacy details” and yet they still let you search many of the big-name search engines. Read their press release: Ixquick.com eliminates ‘Big Brother.’