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I had thought that also, but while it's fresh in my memory, the search term "scroogle" has never shown me http://www.scroogle.org/ in Google's search results.

Google trespassed where map-books like Thomasguide have not.

Google has profiled IP addresses to searched content, and even escalated non-existant privileges from other websites to misuse their shared library functions.

Google has retained affiliation with other corporations to sell unwarranted information to them, including several overseas militant groups to chase their expatriates back to America to assassinate them.

Google has repeatedly done un-competitive actions to non-competitive websites and recently the best of them ( https://ssl.scroogle.org/ ) has not yet returned to operation.

I know of a Google building near me around Newport Beach on California.

Maybe it's about time The Pee Pee Monster ( http://yppm.removed.us/index.php ) rises again to the challenge as did The Mad Bread Pincher...

Yours in sadness, bro'bot of the true R9k1 ( http://4chon.net/r9k/index.html ).

I've already deleted my facebook. I'm scrambling to figure a way to ditch gmail right now (since the privacy policy changes). Don't use bing as InterGuru suggests, but rather https://ssl.scroogle.org/ or startingpage.com

Shattering of an illusion that scroogle.org has tried to tell us about for so long: Google is evil, like all the rest of them.

http://www.scroogle.org/gifs/gscrew.gif

Some alternatives to searching, which I think is the most dangerous tool to lose your privacy on: https://duckduckgo.com/ https://www.ixquick.com/ and of course http://scroogle.org/ that has many SSL-solutions, depending on your OS.

Shattering of an illusion that scroogle.org has tried to tell us about for so long: Google is evil, like all the rest of them.

http://www.scroogle.org/gifs/gscrew.gif

Some alternatives to searching, which I think is the most dangerous tool to lose your privacy on: https://duckduckgo.com/ https://www.ixquick.com/ and of course http://scroogle.org/ that has many SSL-solutions, depending on your OS.

If you don't want results that are personalized by google, use scroogle's search to search google rather than directly searching google itself.

https://ssl.scroogle.org/

Cory Doctorow, Scroogled, reprinted short story, October 2007 issue of Radar magazine. Excerpt: Greg landed at San Francisco International Airport at 8 p.m., but by the time he'd made it to the front of the customs line, it was after midnight. [....] Four hours later in the customs line, he'd slid from god back to man. His slight buzz had worn off, sweat ran down the crack of his ass, and his shoulders and neck were so tense his upper back felt like a tennis racket. The batteries on his iPod had long since died, leaving him with nothing to do except eavesdrop on the middle-age couple ahead of him. "The marvels of modern technology," said the woman, shrugging at a nearby sign: Immigration — Powered by Google.

That is why I use https://encrypted.google.com/

Yeah? Well that's why I use https://ssl.scroogle.org/ with POST. Your ISP can (or should be able to) at least log the URLs you've visited and can extrapolate your search terms from them. POST and Scroogle means neither Google nor your ISP has any clue what you're searching for...and furthermore, the encrypted connection prevents referrer headers from letting pages you landed on from logging your search terms, too.

You could try Scroogle, "the Google scraper" (if you trust the guy who is Google Watch).

https://ssl.scroogle.org/

But google still knows what you did.

Not if you use Scroogle SSL.

Why would this close down scroogle?

If you have a multi-billion dollar budget, then seeming to duplicate some of the features of a non-profit (not the important ones, mind) is a good way to reduce interest in the non-profit.

Not that Google's done anything else to bother Scroogle this month.

Yes, but Scroogle has recently been shut down by Google, so this is their alternative.

http://www.scroogle.org/scrapen8.html - well, it certainly didn't take much research to work out that isn't true.

Scroogle was never shut down by google. Google changed the layout of their results page, and scroogle had to update its scraping software in order to be able to read the new format.

here is the article where Scroogle claims they'll have to shut down forever, and here is scroogle, working fine.

One last note, for the truly paranoid: how do you know scroogle isn't a front, run by google?

The next version of popular torrent software should think about hashing the file names also ... then the only request / response passing through the tracker will be "Hash 0x345fed017 is located at IP 1.2.3.4".

That's already the case -- the tracker only ever sees the info-hash, which is a SHA-1 hash of one part of the .torrent file. The filenames only appear in the .torrent file.

Of course, finding the filename corresponding to an info-hash is usually just a web search away.

Scroogle is owned by Public Information Research, Inc. Their board of directors is in Scroogle: http://www.scroogle.org/staffsc.html

Not sure if they keep logs to subpoena

“We don’t use cookies, we don’t save search terms, and logs are deleted within 48 hours.” – graphic on their homepage.

I'd hope most Linux users realise all the major search engines suck equally and use alternatives that respect their privacy.

Scroogle and other such. There's also some German one (I forgot the name now) that is required to delete such data by their private laws.

I think that's what http://scroogle.org/ is all about.

Curious, I searched for solarphp debate and the first 12 results are a verbatim cut-n-paste of the same summary that was copy-pasted into the Slashdot article.

The subsequent results don't even touch on any kind of performance testing with solarphp. So, um... why is this on the front page again?

Scroogle is another search that doesn't log, but uses Google to do the searches.

As far as whether it's trustworthy or not, I haven't been able to track down yet...

As far as whether it's trustworthy or not, I haven't been able to track down yet...

There is another web site providing the same service, the badly named: Scroogle.

Download, install, properly configure Tor:
https://www.torproject.org/

Certainly you should choose an open source and free operating system to
increase your security/privacy: http://www.distrowatch.com/

Use one of the many tools available to build your own Linux liveCD/DVD/USB
with Tor installed/configured and yank out all of your HDDs or unplug them
while using Tor via Linux liveCD/DVD/USB, then while running Tor:

Scroogle SSL:
https://ssl.scroogle.org/

and for mail:

Safe-Mail:
No cookies, no script, no java, no flash required!
https://www.safe-mail.net/

In the words of Woody Woodpecker:
Hah ha ha HAH ha, Hah ha ha HAH ha, HAHAHAHHAHAHHAAH!

Fuck you corporations, fuck you snoopers, I do it MY WAY.

since it just does searches, but what about scroogle?

Fire up Tor:

https://www.torproject.org/

Properly configure it and use Scroogle SSL:

https://ssl.scroogle.org/

Couple it with a decent mail client not requiring cookies or script:

https://www.safe-mail.net/

Problem solved!

I have no desire or need for Microsoft/Google's direct offerings and surely not mail from either when Tor + Safe-Mail SSL does the job without scripts, cookies, flash, java, etc.

Exit nodes? Hah! It's all SSL, baby! (provided the user verifies everything is correct and in order)

Do you really, really, REALLY trust Microsoft (or Google)? HAHAHAHAH!

If it's not encrypted, it's not worth a SHIT.

None of it is done correctly (regarding insecure unencrypted websites), if you search naked without something like tor & ssl, you are stupid.

Not alternatives, but Scroogle hides your searches among thousands of others (and removes Google's click-tracking javascripts and so on).

Now if only Mozilla et al added encrypted search plugins and made them the default, at least when and where it is desirable and ok'ed by the provider.

For now it's Scroogle SSL search (usually via plugin but their homepage works everywhere) and the Wikipedia link you provided (thanks!).

I have stopped using Google directly altogether. I only use its Web search engine through the scroogle.org proxy, I remember when most people were dying to get a Gmail invite. Nowadays practically everyone has at least one Gmail account. I have never used Gmail for anything I consider private and I refuse to email anything private to any Gmail address without at least encrypting it using PGP. I have lost touch with some people because of this, but my privacy is more important to me than staying in touch with everyone.

Or, rather than using Tor, you can use Scroogle as search engine: https://ssl.scroogle.org/.

SSL + First 100 Google search results + no direct contact with Google.

Google detects Tor exit nodes and often blocks you from use. And Tor is slow.

See http://scroogle.org./ Don't go to the .com site. Different owners.

http://www.scroogle.org/

Google scraper. No cookies, no search-term records, access log deleted within 48 hours. There are search addons for it for various browsers too.

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

Good stuff.

Not http://scroogle.org/
That is an anonymous proxy for google.
You must be thinking of something else.
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
no cookies | no search-term records | access log deleted within 48 hours

Not http://scroogle.org/
That is an anonymous proxy for google.
You must be thinking of something else.
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
no cookies | no search-term records | access log deleted within 48 hours

Search google anonymously: http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html

wow that's scary - pretty much what i suspected google's postition on privacy was, but to hear it out loud is amazing nonetheless. i've a feeling he's gonna regret that comment but its good to know where we stand.

for the last few years i've been using http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html and would recommend it to anyone.
i've been accused of tilting at windmills in the past, but i guess i can live with that, especially now that he's made his position quite clear.

If they have concerns about privacy, why not switch to ixquick or scroogle?

https://www.us.ixquick.com/eng
https://ssl.scroogle.org/

I use Scroogle

+ google search
+ ssl available
+ no cookies

- no personalization

http://www.scroogle.org/

Google and privacy. You might want to check out this, this, this, or this. People also forget that the majority of the world population is not living in the USA. US agencies are allowed to spy on non-US citizens as they like, although this is usually not emphasized for diplomatic reasons. Thus, not only terrorists and wrongdoers should be concerned about their privacy...unless Schmidt thinks that all non-US citizens are terrorists. Foreign governments should actually be much more concerned about Google than they seem to be, but as far as I know only former French president Chirac was concerned about Google and as a politician he turned out to be a wrongdoer, of course. LOL

You can make scroogle your search engine of choice although we all know that it helps less than some people might expect, because normally configured browsers leak a lot of information.

"If you've got nothing to hide" is a tool of tyranny. I thought it was well and truly debunked, and yet it seems it just won't flush away.

Individual privacy doesn't need a reason. The goal of privacy is privacy.

If you're going to search for something that you don't want google spunking up 5 years later, to your post democratic, tyrant overlords, you better start taking precautions.
This is a start. https://ssl.scroogle.org/

Actually, for my own curiosity I'd be interested in the recommendations for alternate search engines that slashdotters think are good one to use, other than google. (Probably this has been covered as a slashdot topic before; so a link would be ok.)

(I can already find this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines thanks)

Starpage.com. No IP logging, no tracking cookies (there is a preference cookie), lets you search over HTTPS, compiles search data from All The Web, Ask, Bing, Cuil, Digg, EntireWeb, Gigablast, Open Directory, Qkport, Wikipedia, and Yahoo.

Overall it works pretty well, but sometimes I need Google's results. That's where Scroogle comes in handy. No cookies, no query logging, ip logs deleted after 48 hours.

Also, if you're using Firefox there are a few settings I highly recommend under Privacy. Set it to "Use custom settings for history", uncheck "Accept third-party cookies", and then change "Keep until" to "I close Firefox". Then use "Exceptions" to whitelist any sites you want to have persistent cookies.

I also tend to use Privoxy + JAP when doing casual browsing (ie, stuff where I don't log in).

My humble suggestion of Fx privacy-enforcement add-ons:
 
TACO, Optimize Google, Better Privacy + delete cookies when closing Firefox + use scroogle or similar.
 
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11073
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/52498
  https://eu.ixquick.com/eng/
  https://ssl.scroogle.org/
 
Tinfoil hat - optional.

I use a proxy as my default search service, like this:

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?q=google+is+collecting+your+data

There may also be others, but this one has worked for me.

Downsides: no cached or similar pages, no searchable search history, no cute math results, none of the value-add search links or maps at the top of the results - just the plain search results.

Upside: no data collection on my searches. (if I believe that the proxy is not also collecting data), you can also set it to give 100 search results as the default.

But go ahead and put this idea to the test! Make your own search engine! Make it a wrapper for google searches, call it "Gaggle". Be up front about the fact that you are doing Google searches, and see just how long it takes for Google's legal department to get in touch with you. Because it's the law, and they *have to* in order to preserve their brand name.

You mean like http://scroogle.org? They've been up for the last several years.

PS Are there any such applications in existence today?

TrackMeNot

Yep. TrackMeNot's been available for a little while.

And here's Bruce Schneier's reason not to use it.

You could also try CustomizeGoogle or the Scroogle scraper...

If you want to do a bit of anonymizing on your google searches you can use http://www.scroogle.org/ or https://ssl.scroogle.org/ . These can be added to your browser search bar (e.g. so Ctrl-K sends off a search).

Note: NOT scroogle.com: that is a NSFW site :-/

If you want to do a bit of anonymizing on your google searches you can use http://www.scroogle.org/ or https://ssl.scroogle.org/ . These can be added to your browser search bar (e.g. so Ctrl-K sends off a search).

Note: NOT scroogle.com: that is a NSFW site :-/