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Privacy-Centric Search Engine Scroogle Shuts Down
An anonymous reader writes "Daniel Brandt started his 'Scroogle' search engine because he wanted to provide increased privacy to people who searched online through Google. Unfortunately, while Google tolerated this for a while, they began throttling Scroogle queries. This, in combination with extensive DDoS attacks on Brandt's servers, has caused him to take Scroogle offline, along with his other domains. He said, 'I no longer have any domains online. I also took all my domains out of DNS because I want to signal to the criminal element that I have no more servers to trash. This hopefully will ward off further attacks on my previous providers. Scroogle.org is gone forever. Even if all my DDoS problems had never started in December, Scroogle was already getting squeezed from Google's throttling, and was already dying. It might have lasted another six months if I hadn't lost seven servers from DDoS, but that's about all.' Internet users who made use of the services will now need to investigate other options."
I know. I do love handing over my deeply personal information to an international spying corporation.
Wikipedia editors are assholes, I don't blame him.
The Conspiracy theory wacko's you labeled and called all these vulgar slang psychopathic mind fuck names of yester year are the front and center of real conspiracy exposure today. They have in essence replaced fascist presstitute media and their propaganda with facts and sunlight.
Google wouldn't show his site in the first page when people searched for famous people names.
I had this problem too (more than once), so it's not like an uncommon problem.
So while you can call him loony, I can call you a jackass troll, what the fuck have you done for anyone.
God Bless what he tried to do.