mac Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Now to find another "non-tracking" search engine Scroogle - a not-for-profit search engine that offered users something of a pro-privacy antidote to Google - has been killed off by its creator. Daniel Brandt called it quits after his servers were repeatedly targeted by DDoS attacks on Scroogle. As we reported last week, the website was out of action and displaying a message during the most recent outage that blamed Google for "temporarily blocking" Scroogle's server. It turns out the site, which routinely scraped the Chocolate Factory's search results for the best part of a decade, has been closed down by Brandt. The final nail in the coffin came not because of action take by Google to once again attempt to banish the site from the interwebs, but due to the number of DDoS attacks that hit Scroogle, rendering the site utterly useless. “Scroogle.org is gone forever,” Brandt told BetaBeat. Register article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Each of the following have a settings page, where you can turn on https and other options regarding look, feel and privacy: DuckDuckGo - click on the main duck icon (takes you to the about DuckDuckGo page), then in the bar across the top click on More dropdown button, choose settings, particularly https by default and other very nice options. You can save the settings and/or copy the url after your settings have been adjusted to your liking StartPage - click settings upper right of the main page IXquick - click settings upper right of the main page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Now to find another "non-tracking" search engine Register article. bummer which group would have wanted to DDoS them all the time or was it more like their service was being programitcally used by the badguys so much that others couldn't get in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Gee, I wonder ... a DDoS on Scroogle? Who/what would benefit from wiping Scroogle off the face of the planet... Maybe Scroogle wasn't paying for the content so Google cut them off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tushman Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 What a shame - I was starting to like Scroogle. I bet you anything the evilness that has permeated Google is behind this. Just my theory of course. Mac - why don't you try DuckDuckGo a try? Search results are pretty decent and the site owner claims that they don't track like Google does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 Tushman and Fran, thanks for the suggestion of DuckDuckGo. The privacy options look very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Tushman and Fran, thanks for the suggestion of DuckDuckGo. The privacy options look very good. Thought you might like them. I was highly impressed with DDG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tushman Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Thought you might like them. I was highly impressed with DDG. Sorry Fran, didn't see your previous post mentioning DDG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Sorry Fran, didn't see your previous post mentioning DDG. No worries. Great confirmation of how good DDG is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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