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Scroogle: Google Anonymously

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Someone has to ask: How do we know we can trust Scroogle?

They appear to dislike Google, shouldn't that be good enough for anyone?

And they're a registered U.S. non-profit.

The paranoid still have FreeNet and Tor, btw. Failing that, you can always roll out your own peer to peer anonymous google-based search engine, but good luck securing it or keeping spammers away.

Seems like a lot of people don't know about this nice service. It's my default search engine in the Firefox search bar:

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

ooo nice - thanks.

in the post above did you mean to link to this - http://jeffwinkler.net/2006/08/11/firefox-search-plugins-scr...

i just used that page to add scroogle to firefox.

Yes.

SSL FTW!

https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=google

Sroogle is specially useful when googling via TOR. Otherwise google (and others) block queries thinking you're a bot (or maybe not because of that...) and ask to fill a captcha over and over again.

It's probably because there is so much traffic coming from the Tor exit node. Google just sees it as a huge amount of traffic coming from a single source.

At work, once every month or two someone in the building must be doing something that is really hitting Google because every Google search will require a Captcha for a couple of hours.

Now that you say it, it does happens once in a while at work for me too. And I agree with you about the exit nodes, I should have thought of that :P .

Considering the amount of daily queries scroogle handles it would be interesting to know how they handle that issue.

It could be a manual exception. I doubt that Google has the time to track down all Tor exit nodes or work ISP IPs and flag them as 'not spammers or bots.'

Is there any way to make the scroogle pages not so.... Ugly?

I much prefer the look and feel of normal google results but would obviously prefer the scroogle version.

Try this as userstyle:

ul {margin:5px !important; padding:0px !important; width:600px !important;}

b {background-color:#fff !important;}

I guess this is good for people who are worried about what Google collects about them.

Personally I feel there's a bit of a moral issue in doing something that would cause the system to break down if everyone did it. Also the page is uglier and takes twice as long to load as google.com (longer perceptually, I'm just going by what Safari's web inspector says).

The 'no cartoons' link leads to a cleaner search page:

http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html

Thanks, but I was referring to the srp, not the home page.

The "system" wouldn't break. Google might break (in reality, they'd just find some other way to make money). And I'd shed no tears and move on to something else.

Such a service would be completely useless to me since I've "incriminated" myself 100 times over already with Google (I suspect most people are in my situation). Most likely won't make any difference if I start using such a service now.

Beware: scroogle.com is not quite safe for work.

What do you mean?

www.yauba.com

Would be nice to have an SSL version, like scroogle's SSL search.

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