Metasearch engine Ixquick promises to delete users’ privacy data within 48 hours.

Robert E.G. Beens, CEO of the metasearch engine Ixquick.com, has sent us a mail where he draws attention to the recent debate on search engine privacy concerns.

He points to the Financial Times. The newspaper says that “The race to accumulate the most comprehensive database of individual information has become the new battleground for search engines”.

Indeed, for good and for bad, search engines like Google are accumulating more and more data from our search habits, mail databases, bookmarking services, send-me-an-email-alert services, web feed readers and more.

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