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Space Toker

Space Toker

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Someone once advised using scroogle instead of google for privacy concerns, and I did just that. But I hear many people talking about doing google searches and no one mentioning scroogle. Also, some IP number comes up before pulling up scroogle, so it has me a little suspicious. Is Scroogle legit or some scam?

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Gangabiss

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Scroogle eh?

Maybe because they screw you up the oogle after you use it? I dunno man but it sounds fishy to me.
 
mars2112

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have you tried googling scroogle lol.. scroogle is legit, it's known as a google scraper because it uses google search engine but doesn't track IPs or load cookies like google does.. i believe it's a yahoo scraper too

mozilla firefox offers a scroogle plug-in
 
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people like to think using crap like that keeps them incognito...'


gimme a break....you piss the right people off and they can find your honkey ass easily enough you web loafing sob hehe


that includes my lazy asss
 
BOFH

BOFH

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Using a proxy or scrapper doesn't stop authorities from sniffing or inspecting your packets before they leave your service providers network.
 
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een

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Space Toker said:
so what can you do to stop them or hide from them or whatever?
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ICMAG could use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) on their server. THis gives you a secure connection all the way from your PC to the webserver, it's what banks and e-commerce sites use when you give credit card information. In Australia our main pothead website ozstoners.com uses it.

Regarding google yes they log everything you ever search for, they record your IP and also store a cookie on your PC. Their long term aim is for individuals and companies to store their files on google servers so they can 'search' it for us (only by trusted employees of course). Soon they will be releasing word processors and spreadsheets that work inside a web-browser. Publicly they will say they want to compete with Microsoft, in reality everything you type into those web based app's will be stored on their servers.
 
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The Justice Department in 2006 subpoenaed 4 major internet companies for data on what people search for on the web as part of an eight-year battle over a federal law designed to shield children from online pornography.
(i'm all for catching child molesters and pervs)

Three of the companies responded to some degree but google resisted the demand, it went to court, if i remember correctly a compromise was reached.

* what u.s. govt. wanted from google.

* turn over every query typed into its search engine over the course of one week without providing identifying information about the people who conducted the searches.

* asked for a random sample of 1 million web pages that can be searched in the vast databases maintained by google, whose stated corporate mission is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."


** under the anti-terrorism Patriot Act, the Justice Department has demanded records on library patrons internet use.

**google has also recieved criticism for going into china, the net in china is censored.

some believe the u.s. government is moving aggressively on several fronts to obtain data on internet activity to achieve its law-enforcement goals, from domestic security to the prosecution of online crime.

google retains your search records for how long?? we don't know.
scroogle SCRAPES google (scans googles search engine) but no cookies and no search records are retained.

http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html there's a yahoo version as well.
 
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genkisan

genkisan

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I am gonna design a search engine called Poo-gle



















It only finds the really shitty websites.
 
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