[jaws-uk] Fw: Re IXQUICK et al

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Eric Archer 
To: Claire Ingram-Gorban 
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:10 AM
Subject: Re IXQUICK et al

Dear Claire

Thanks for your e-mail about the search engine IXQUICK ( pronounced "ickskwik" 
my phonetics).

Here is "IXQUICK's" mission statement ( or if you like how wonderful their 
product is ).

"

THE SCOOP ON IXQUICK

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What Makes Ixquick Special
Ixquick is the world's most powerful metasearch engine.
Ixquick search results are more comprehensive and more accurate. Ixquick's 
unique capabilities include a Universal Power Search, a global search and power 
refinement.
      Find phone numbers and addresses worldwide with Ixquick's International 
Phone Directory, and comparison shop globally with Ixquick's Lowest Price 
search. 

More comprehensive
      Ixquick is a metasearch engine: when you search Ixquick, you are 
searching many popular search engines at the same time. Combined, these engines 
cover more of the Internet than any one search engine covers. 

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.

     
      At Ixquick, 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, experience Ixquicks Power Search homepage or 
Ixquicks Expert Search homepage by clicking on the Power Search link on the 
homepage. 

Global Search
      Ixquick searches the world:

        a.. Search in any of 18 languages - even Chinese, Japanese and Korean. 
In each language, Ixquick metasearches local and international search engines 
so you'll find exactly what you're searching for;
        b.. 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;
        c.. Comparison shop over 5000 merchants with Ixquick's Lowest Price 
search, an unbiased tool for finding the lowest prices worldwide.
     

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  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 powerful 
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 
a breeze. 
      With the Ixquick toolbar, you can instantly 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: its popup blocker prevents 
bothersome ads, 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. 


Well that's what they say about the product.

At the moment their main man at IXQUICK is:


Contact:
Alex van Eesteren, Vice President of Marketing and Sales
+31 23 5325888


The product is what is known as a "Metasearch" engine. 

In a WIKIPEDIA article it describes a metasearch engine as one that

"A meta-search engine is a search engine that sends user requests to several 
other search engines and/or databases and returns the results from each one. 
They allow users to enter their search criteria only one time and access 
several search engines simultaneously."

Apparently the company was started in New York in 1998 & is currently owned by:

Surfboard Holding BV

Hope that helps

Regards

Eric






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