[GLLUG] Scroogle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[David L Lambert]

"Google denied targeting Scroogle, saying the site may have been triggering 
automated anti-spam mechanisms.[5] In February 2012, Scroogle was shut down 
by its creator.[17] Brandt blamed a DDoS attack by someone with 'a personal 
vendetta' combined with throttling by Google for the site's demise."

So I think the field is still open for someone to create a similar site and 
only allow access to people you trust...  although I guess that removes the 
anonymity a bit.

Or,  perhaps he could have made it more reliable with some throttling, 
caching, and filtering on his end;  although that too starts treading on the 
"anonymity" factor.

I guess you can still split your searches between Goolge, Yahoo and Bing. 
Wikipedia has site-internal search too,  that's probably a better place to 
start when you just want to "google it" with a lower-case "g".

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chick Tower" <c.e.tower at gmail.com>
To: <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:48 PM
Subject: [GLLUG] Scroogle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


> Well, it looks as though that website I mentioned that protects your 
> privacy while searching using Google is a recent casualty on the web.
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