IxQuick Changes Name To Startpage, by Matt McGee, Search Engine Land (Jul 7)
Ixquick, a metasearch engine that was one of the earliest, has cloned itself into Startpage . It changed its name but still shows Ask/Teoma - Ask hasn't been Teoma for years. However, it does list Bing (not Live), and Cuil (relatively new), and QkPort, a portal in the UK.
Scoring system for ranking seems to be the same - a star for everytime a result is in the top 10 of one of the search engines.
Of course, Startpage complies with the Ixquick privacy policy to not save the IP number or any other private data on any search. You really can search anonymously here.
Ixquick still exists but it has slightly different search engines (no Lycos, Qkport, or Cuil) and slightly different handling.
Official Announcement: Announcing Startpage: A New Name for the World's Most Private Search Engine
Maybe Ixquick, based in Netherlands, thinks that Startpage will be more attractive to English-speaking users.
Posted by Gwen at July 10, 2009 08:06 PM