For those of you out there concerned about your search history being saved and ‘data mined’, an alternate search engine to take a look at is Ixquick Metasearch.

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

A quick visit to their site and you instantly see the claim, ‘No IP addresses stored’. You can read the full implications of search engine privacy on their site which may concern some of our readers.

Regardless of whether or not privacy is a big concern of yours, this seems to be a fairly good search engine and might be worth a shot the next time you are in the mood to try something new.