Scroogle

Scroogle was a Web service that acted as a proxy for Google's search function. Scroogle protected the privacy of the seeker by preventing the detection of user activities. In particular, Google's logging and long-term storage of user activities using cookies or IP addresses have been avoided. These data suggested the group otherwise the ability to draw conclusions about the personality of the user based on the search terms entered and followed links on the results pages.

The proxy was Scroogle SSL -enabled and hidden ads on the result pages of. There were 28 languages ​​supported for the search; Firefox for a Scroogle plugin is available. By his own admission, the server logs are deleted every 48 hours and the search queries not saved per user.

The site was created in April 2003 by critic Daniel Brandt Google, who disagreed with the collection and analysis of information about the user behavior by Google. The rights are owned by the non-profit company Public Information Research, Inc., which also operates Google Watch.

July 1, 2010 Scroogle turned off its search service for a few days; this was attributed to a change in the interface of Google.

Since mid-February 2012, the page is no longer accessible after Google had just begun previously to block the service. The founder of Scroogle, Daniel Brandt, confirmed BetaBeat.com that Scroogle no longer go online.