The service costs $6.95 per month, however, they are currently offering a one-week free trial. Note that the free trial automatically rebills at their full rate after one week. When you signup, you get a few different proxy sites to choose from:

• www.65v.info – running Glype
• www.4b5.info – running CGIProxy, hosting account suspended
• www.c3w.info – running Zelune , hosting account suspended

The ProxyKey website boasts a number of impressive claims:

• Reliability – "We have never had a proxy down before. If we do, we have several backups on different servers so we always have one online."

  Never? No. Two of their three sites are offline at the time of this writing.

• Multiple Location – "We have proxies from multiple domains, IPs, countries (USA and offshore), and different scripts available."

  One working proxy, one IP, one script, none offshore. ProxyKey advertises that 65v.info is located in Melbourne, Australia but in actuality it is located in the FDCservers.net datacenter in Woodstock, IL.

• Super Fast Access – "We have a Dedicated 1 Megabyte per second (Mbps) line per user so you never have to worry about slow loading time."

  Absurd. A dedicated 1 megabit line per user is clearly not provided as the “line” is shared amongst all users of the service. Also, Mbps is the abbreviation for “megabit per second”, a very different measurement than megabytes and hardly “super fast”. Users are unlikely to "never have to worry about slow loading time”.

• Unlimited File Download Size – "We do not have a limit on the size of the files you download so feel free to stream video or access large files."

  The proxy script used on ProxyKey’s only working proxy is Glype and it does not support any sort of streaming media. I visited YouTube via the proxy and confirmed that no videos would display.

• Never Blocked – "One major problem with proxies is that they are often themselves blocked. We take preventative measures to make sure that we are never blocked."

  Never? With one proxy site working they had better hope so.

• Compatibility – "Most proxies aren’t fully functional with Myspace, Youtube, and other websites. We make sure that we are fully compatible with all websites."

  No. I found that ProxyKey is not compatible with YouTube. No web-based proxy can or should claim to be “fully compatible with all websites” as it is impossible.

• Restrictions – "Public proxies put on some annoying restrictions. We however don’t have any restrictions on file size limit, allow the FTP protocol, etc."

  No. Glype does not support the FTP protocol. Claims of “no restrictions” and having an “unlimited file size limit” do not stand up considering that ProxyKey has finite resources for its proxies.

ProxyKey fails to deliver on its promises and provides a user experience comparable with any free proxy but at a premium price. I recommend users purchase from established proxy services instead.

TPB Rating:
Design: 4
Content: 1
Speed: 4
Special Features: 1
Overall: 2 out of 10

Today I discovered a cool proxy website called ProxyRotator. Instead of using only one proxy, ProxyRotator lets you randomly rotate different proxy websites. No need to search top lists for new fresh proxies anymore, ProxyRotator does it for you.

Basically you just enter ProxyRotator.com and you are set to go. If you do not like the current proxy website, just click Rotate and ProxyRotator will find a new proxy for you.

The design is simple,smooth and in big letters (I love big letters).

The thing about ProxyRotator is that it’s a win – win for proxy users and proxy webmasters. It’s easy to submit new proxy websites, and there is no reciprocal link required. However, if you place a small banner before joining you will get 500 Credits.

The more credit your proxy has, the more views it will get. So by placing a small banner you are guaranteed 500 visits. You can also get extra credits by participating in the forum, and the owner of ProxyRotator revealed to me that in the future there may be a paid option.

The only downside to ProxyRotator as I experienced it was a few slow proxies, and some that didn’t work. But all in all I had a good experience using ProxyRotator, and for active proxy users I am sure that this is a great tool!

Because there are different proxy websites from time to time, content, speed and design can not be reviewed as usual. This review is based on the overall experience of ProxyRotator.

Proxy Review: 7

Click here to visit ProxyRotator.com

At first sight, iSchoogle looks like a fun and simple web proxy that looks like Google. One point for simplicity. The other thing I notice is the funny slogan “Works for teachers too”. This is great if a teacher that uses Facebook or MySpace happends to stumble it .

The name, iSchoogle, is highly brandable in my opinion. It mixes the two words “school” and “google” into a uniqe, but not cheesy brandname. A bit hard to spell, but easy to remember.

What I like about iSchoogle is one featurue I’ve never seen on any other web proxies around. Atleast not yet. The panic button that leads to Wikipedia, lets all the users feel safe when using it at school. If your teacher should show up, just hit the panic button and whoops; you’re doing research at Wikipedia. Could it be better?

The negative thing about iSchoogle is that there is no content, only a picture with text on. This is not good for SEO, and search engines do not like websites without content.

To sum up, I’ve given based this review on the following things:

Uniqueness: 7
Design: 9
Content: 1
Usability: 8
Speed: 8
Special Feautures: 10

Proxy Review: 7,1

Visit http://www.iSchoogle.com