Scroogle, a Google search proxy that prevents the searcher’s data being stored by Google, is running again after a code change briefly knocked it down.
Many privacy activists consider that connecting IP addresses with search queries poses privacy and security concerns. The only thing Google does to protect the search privacy is that they anonymize the last octet of the IP address after nine months after the search is done. For those that consider this is not good enough Scroogle is the way to go.
Scroogle allows people to use Google’s search engine without the company recording their search terms with their real IP address. Google’s search results are proxied through a Scroogle server and only sees Scroogle’s IP address.
But when Google changed that page last week in an effort to get people to upgrade to newer versions of Internet Explorer, Scroogle was affected. The problem was quickly fixed and those seeking online privacy can again use Scroogle.
Scroogle receives around 325,000 queries a day, just a tiny fraction of the more than one billion queries Google’s search engine receives on a daily basis.
[Via PCWorld]
2 Comments
I found out google was customizing my searches for my terms a while back. I build niche websites and thought “wow, my sites are coming up in rank really fast.” then I reloads what google was doing.
I wasn’t getting accurate search results from google so that caused me to find a way to search my niche sites to see how they were ranking. That’s when I found scrooge and have been using it ever since.
Amen.
Damn auto correct.
Realized, and scrooge