ixquick’s features include a Universal Power Search, a global search and power refinement.  You can find phone numbers and addresses worldwide with Ixquick’s International Phone Directory, or search through their 18 million hours of video with Ixquick’s Video search.

Ixquick offers you Privacy:  Ixquick deletes your personal data.

More comprehensive search results:  Ixquick is a metasearch engine: when you search Ixquick, you are searching many popular search engines at the same time. 

More accurate results:  An Ixquick result is awarded one star for every search engine that chooses it as one of the ten best results for your search. So a five star result means that five search engines agreed on the result.  This is significant because search engines choose results in different ways, and each approach works well in some cases and poorly in others. A result with many stars was chosen for many different reasons, and is a consensus choice of many search engines.  Also, while irrelevant Web pages can be “optimized” to fool a single search engine’s algorithm, it is much harder for a page to fool all the search engines.

Universal power search:  Professional researchers rely on power search methods such as Boolean logic, phrases, wildcards, and field searches.  But different search engines support different power search methods, and require the user to access them in different ways. Keeping track of these differences can be time-consuming and burdensome.  Ixquick solves this problem by understanding which power search methods each search engine supports, and how to access them.

You can enter virtually any power search, using one simple syntax. Ixquick supports a wider range of power search methods than any one search engine has.  Ixquick then sends your query to only the search engines that can handle that specific search, translating it into the syntax that each search engine needs.  For easy power searching, try Ixquick’s Power Search homepage or Ixquick’s Expert Search homepage by clicking on the Power Search link on the homepage.

Global Search:  Search in any of 18 languages. In each language, Ixquick metasearches local and international search engines so you’ll find exactly what you’re searching for.  Find people and businesses worldwide with Ixquick’s International Phone Directory. Want to know who’s calling? With just the phone number, Ixquick’s Reverse Directory search can tell you. Want to find more information about the person or business? Click on the name and a complete Web search will be performed.

Video Search: Search over 18 million hours of video content. Refine your search in any of the 6 special categories. 

Power Refinement:  With Ixquick’s Exclude Results Seen Before feature, followup searches only show new results: Ixquick doesn’t waste your time with results you’ve seen and rejected before. To see this in action, edit your search on the bottom of a results page and press Search.  Use Ixquick’s Result Honing to pinpoint the results that you want: Notice the check mark and X mark that appear near some results. If a result is especially good, click on the check mark to find results that are similar, and if a result is not what you are looking for, click the X to remove results that are like it.  This principle is also called Subject Clustering.

Search from Anywhere:  With the Ixquick Toolbar and the Ixquick Deskbar, Ixquick’s search features are available from anywhere on or off the Web. The toolbar’s Search This Site feature makes tracking down information on a specific website easier.  With the Ixquick toolbar, you can metasearch the Web, find pictures, look up phone numbers and addresses worldwide, even find out who called with just a phone number, no matter which site you’re surfing.

The toolbar offers handy extras too: it lets you search through any website and its magnification buttons let you enlarge or reduce any webpage to make it more readable. And for fun, you can spice up your emails with smileys: choose from hundreds of large smiley emoticons to insert into almost any Web-based email.