The Library has recently added a metasearch engine, Ixquick to the Databases A-Z list on the Library Website. Ixquick is committed to protect the privacy of its user community by promising not to store user’s personal information. It does not collect IP addresses nor any search terms or phrases. It does not use any identifying cookies as well. The only information Ixquick records is an aggregate total of how many searches are performed on the website each day.

When you search with Ixquick search engine, you are searching many popular search engines simultaneously and anonymously. It ranks search results by a star system. 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. Phone numbers and addresses can be found via ixquick’s International Phone directory and the web can be searched in 18 different languages.

Users can access Ixquick through MSKsearch on the Library’s Website or through the Library’s catalog, Tri-Cat.