Tag Archives: Scroogle
thechromesource Daily: Links for 5/17/10
Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Although I’ve been unable to find an official link from Acer, Engadget reports that the company will not launch a Chrome OS netbook soon.
YouTube is now five years old; it serves up more than two billion videos to users everyday.
Scroogle now has its own Scraper Extension in the Chrome directory; allowing you scraped searches anytime you want.
Could Google TV be “the biggest single change in television since it went color”, as Intel chief Paul Otellini has been quoted?
The Android Market has had its website updated a bit, possibly in anticipation of Google I/O on Wednesday.
Concerned About Privacy? Scroogle Scrapes Your Searches
Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
It’s no joke that Google is everywhere – we hear this piece of information so often it’s beginning to become something that we no longer think about. There are some serious privacy issues that are presented when thinking of how much information Google collects in order to make a tidy profit, and most of us just assume that we can expect Google to make the best judgment about what to do with that information.
Enter Scroogle. If anything else, I guarantee you will find some entertainment by visiting this unique site. But its main purpose is to offer folks the ability to conduct searches without having any data sent back to Google. The way it works is pretty straightforward: the cookie that is assigned a unique identifier by Google is used once and then trashed by the Scroogle servers within an hour, and their logs are deleted within 48 hours. Therefore, Google gets a cookie that has some information, but has no real way to use it since it is used only once and then thrown away.
The site even offers instructions on how to make Scroogle the default search in whatever browser you use with their own SSL sever, claiming under the instructions for Chrome that it “phones home a lot”.
According to the site statistics, Scroogle is used quite a bit. It does over 300,000 scraped searches every day and is on a steady rise. It’s ranked as one of the top ten thousand sites on the web by Alexa, an impressive feat considering a search (non-Scroogled, by the way) for the site offered very little information on the site. There’s a Firefox add-in for Scroogle, but I suspect that we won’t be seeing an official Chrome Extension anytime soon. Give it a shot if you are concerned that Google or perhaps another organization such as your ISP is looking over your shoulder a bit too much.
