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Ixquick is sort of like a proxy for Google search results. It's run by the same people who run StartPage.com
by thomasfoster96 12y ago
Ixquick is sort of like a proxy for Google search results. It's run by the same people who run StartPage.com
- walterbell 12y agoThey claim not to track users, any idea how they make money?
- boyter 12y agoYou don't have to track users to make money. It's just a way of making more money hence its occurring. DuckDuckGo makes a business not tracking users and I believe made over 1.2 million last year based on its donations.
- thomasfoster96 12y agoWhere did you manage to find their donation numbers from last year? I thought they'd stopped disclosing their donation amounts a few years ago (even then they were in the 6 figures for revenue).
- boyter 12y agoCannot remember sorry. The numbers were published as 6 donations of $25,000 to different organisations. I got the link from twitter. I think of the groups was a women's interest group if that helps.
- thomasfoster96 12y agoAh right no worries. They used to post the donation breakdown on https://duck.co/ https://duck.co/ but the last one I could find was in 2011.
- thomasfoster96 12y agoThey show keyword-based ads. Same as DuckDuckGo and other search sites that claim to not track users. A search engine doesn't need to track people to make money, they just make much more money if they target ads better by tracking.