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Scroogle dead

Arfer Moe | 11.03.2012 02:37 | Culture | Indymedia | Technology

Time to change the search

It's time to change the Scroogle search, guys, as Scroogle has been dead for yonks. How about this one instead?
 https://startpage.com/eng/advanced-search.html?&cat=web&query=

Arfer Moe

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duck duck go

11.03.2012 02:58

ddg.gg is pretty sweet, also gibiru.com (which works pretty much the same as scroogle.

silly ducker

Start Page Proxy

11.03.2012 13:23

One of the great things about Start Page is its stated privacy policy and quick access to its own proxy. There's an explanation of that here:  https://startpage.com/proxy/eng/help.html

Arfer Moe

ixquick

12.03.2012 11:21

ixquick seems OK in the scheme of things too:
 http://ixquick.com

anon

ixQuick

12.03.2012 14:25

ixQuick and StartPage are the same people. Good search engine.

Zippo

Don't trust a single point of failure

12.03.2012 20:48

IMHO it is foolish to trust a single point of failure like any of these search engines. How do you know they don't secretly log everything? Most of them just pass on the query to Google anyway so a) Google can block them any time they want and b) Google will log the searches and the government can easily log traffic to the supposedly secure search websites and match them up by time.

If you want a secure search use Tor with a search engine like Google.

Use Firefox with Torbutton, which handles the potential pitfalls with Tor:
 https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/

It is slow, but it has to be otherwise traffic analysis can match up searches.

anon

ddg for everyday use, tor + whatever if you really care

16.03.2012 17:58

ddg.gg addresses the problem of routine profiling by advertisers etc, tor (somewhat) addresses the issue of anonymization if you really don't want to get caught doing something online.

Joe