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Scroogle has been blocked!
Scroogle Home Page ^ | May 10, 2010 | Daniel Brandt

Posted on 05/10/2010 10:54:33 PM PDT by Chances Are

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To: Chances Are

Also, as an alternative to using scroogle (while it is down), use google with Firefox with the Tor Button enabled.


21 posted on 05/11/2010 1:29:38 AM PDT by joseph20 (...to ourselves and our Posterity...)
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To: Chances Are
I was looking around and I found this: https://us2.startpage.com/.

It's a privacy-oriented search service.
22 posted on 05/11/2010 1:38:53 AM PDT by joseph20 (...to ourselves and our Posterity...)
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To: wireplay
...use anonomizer and you shouldn’t have an issue.

To me $80/year is an issue just to search anomalously...

23 posted on 05/11/2010 2:29:04 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave (To anger a Conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a Liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: joseph20

How do I vote for it?


24 posted on 05/11/2010 2:43:19 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: Chances Are
Scroogle has been blocked!

Damn!

25 posted on 05/11/2010 3:02:03 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
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To: wireplay

****Well, I did a search since I have never used the site (web guy since 1993) and what they seem to do would tick me off if I was Google.

They are taking away Google’s ad revenues or did I miss what they do completely?

If I took DrudgeReport and stripped away all ads and news links and pushed it out, wouldn’t that seem wrong?****

I remember when people bought subscriptions to cable tv to get away from ads. Then sure enough ads became a staple of cable tv as well. I pay for internet access so if I want to eliminate ads I have that right just as Google and Drudge have the right to display them.


26 posted on 05/11/2010 3:04:18 AM PDT by ResponseAbility (Prepare for battle and never forsake the Lord...unknown)
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To: Chances Are
Scroogle was run by leftists anyway. There was never any good reason to think they treated your data any better than Google.

Famlisearch

27 posted on 05/11/2010 3:08:25 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: pillut48

It ‘scrapes’ the google return and send them to you. That way google cannot track your search and relate it to your IP.

They track every user that connects to google. They can tell all kinds of information about your pc including OS, location and IP. They can then related your search to your address. They keep the information for a very long time.


28 posted on 05/11/2010 3:20:04 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Can’t search images on Famlisearch.....


29 posted on 05/11/2010 3:28:50 AM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: Chances Are

We use GoodSearch... they utilize the Yahoo engine and they share some of the adv revenue with your favorite charity. We’ve added both of our kids’ schools over the years and gained some monies for them. The real rewards come from clicking through them to online retailers - just for that ‘portal’ click-through the retailer kicks in a percent of the merchandise sale to your charity. Something to consider.


30 posted on 05/11/2010 3:59:54 AM PDT by TedLee ("Self government without self control will not work")
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To: Chances Are; ShadowAce; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Jaguar; max americana; Boucheau; glock rocks; ...
An observation that seems ironic to me:

This is the same google that supports net neutrality. As they censor certain websites.

So all of us are supposed to believe that google requires the federal government to impose net neutrality in order to stop google from censoring?

That doesn't add up. Doesn't pass the smell test. I'm sure most of us can see through this.

31 posted on 05/11/2010 4:17:06 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Net Neutrality - I say a lot of un-neutral things. How about you?)
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To: driftdiver
>"They track every user that connects to google. They can tell all kinds of information about your pc including OS, location and IP. They can then related your search to your address. They keep the information for a very long time."

Keep using GOOGLE! I make money every time you do!

XOXOXOXOXOX,

Al


32 posted on 05/11/2010 4:26:36 AM PDT by scoobysnak71 (Never argue with stupid people. They drag you down to their level and win through experience.)
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Folks, this is about Internet Privacy from search engines not about raising money for charities.

Scroogle would ‘scrape’ Google search results to provide data that gave you privacy from the Big Brother efforts of the Obama loving Google owners.

Nature hates a vacuum and I am sure that another method will be used to achieve that same results.


33 posted on 05/11/2010 4:35:23 AM PDT by WaterBoard
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To: Yardstick
"An ad-free Google search proxy which prevents the searcher's data being stored by Google, a Firefox plugin, and tools for webmasters."

It is Google without the ads and storing of cookies or the Search History. I can see why Google would change things to get rid of Scroogle. It cuts some ad revenue and still uses their service.

34 posted on 05/11/2010 4:36:06 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: WaterBoard

” We are moving to a Google that knows more about you.” — Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking to financial analysts,
February 9, 2005

CNBC’s Mario Bartiromo asked CEO Schmidt in her December 3, 2009 interview: “People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they?” Schmidt tells Baritoromo:

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”


35 posted on 05/11/2010 4:38:33 AM PDT by WaterBoard
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To: joseph20

What is the Tor button?


36 posted on 05/11/2010 4:54:06 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: SumProVita

The Onion Router. It’s an anonymizer.


37 posted on 05/11/2010 5:07:06 AM PDT by Famishus (North of the equator, the Death Spiral is clockwise.)
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To: Famishus

Maybe it’s just easier right now to use Bing. ;-)


38 posted on 05/11/2010 5:37:09 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Las Vegas Dave
To me $80/year is an issue just to search anomalously...

Do you mean "anonymously"? Or are your searches really anomalous?

39 posted on 05/11/2010 5:41:54 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Yardstick
must be getting old, because I have no idea what Scroogle or a “scraper” is.

Ditto...and I also do not tweet nor text...and when some texts me....I see who it is....call them...and when they ask if I read their text, I say...'NO that's why I have a phone' 'If you want to email me use the computer'.

40 posted on 05/11/2010 5:45:44 AM PDT by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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