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{{Infobox Website |
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|name = Scroogle |
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|logo = |
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|screenshot = [[Image:Scroogle-screenshot.png|260px]] |
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|caption = screenshot of Scroogle.org as of 2008-10-14 |
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|url = http://www.scroogle.org |
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|commercial = no |
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|type = [[Web search engine|Search Engine]] |
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|language = [[English language|English]] and 27 others |
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|registration = none |
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|owner = [[Public Information Research]], Inc.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.scroogle.org/staffsc.html | title=PIR Staff Box | accessdate=2008-06-25}}</ref> |
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|author = Daniel Brandt<ref name=whois /><ref name="worldnetdaily" /> |
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|launch date = 2003-04-24<ref name=whois>{{cite web | url=http://whois.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=scroogle.org | title=WHOIS - scroogle.org | accessdate=2008-06-25}}</ref> |
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|current status = active |
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}} |
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'''Scroogle''' is a [[web service]] that disguises the [[Internet address]] of users who want to run [[Google]] searches [[Anonymous web browsing|anonymously]].<ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/01/21/google_subpoena_roils_the_web/?page=full |
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|title=Google subpoena roils the Web: US effort raises privacy issues |
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|first=Hiawatha |
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|last=Bray |
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|publisher=The Boston Globe |
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|date=2006-01-21}}</ref> Scroogle also gives users the option of having all communication between their computer and the search page be [[Transport Layer Security|SSL]] encrypted.<ref>{{cite web |
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|url=https://ssl.scroogle.org/sslnote.html |
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|title=A note about SSL: How Scroogle's SSL option protects your privacy |
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|publisher=PIR |
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|date=2008-06-07}}</ref> |
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The tool was created by Google critic Daniel Brandt,<ref name=whois /><ref name=worldnetdaily>{{cite web |
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|url=http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55935 |
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|title=Fed up with Google? Try Scroogle.org: Powerful search tool without privacy violations |
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|publisher=WorldNetDaily |
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|date=2007-06-04}}</ref> who was concerned about Google collecting information on users, and set up Scroogle to filter searches through his servers before going to Google. "I don't save the search terms and I delete all my logs every week. So even if the feds come around and ask me questions I don't know the answer because I don't have the logs any more," he said "I don't associate the search terms with the user's address at all, so I can't even match those up."<ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/Icon/Searching-for-gold/2005/06/15/1118645849591.html |
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|title=Searching for gold |
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|first=David |
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|last=Stonehouse |
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|date=2005-06-18 |
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|publisher=The Age}}</ref> |
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Traffic has doubled every year and as of December 2007, Scroogle had passed 100,000 visitors a day.<ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article3055825.ece |
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|title=Fears mount over internet privacy: Google rival Ask.com is promising to wipe out people’s search records within hours. But do the data really disappear? |
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|first=Dominic |
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|last=Rush |
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|publisher=The Sunday Times (UK) |
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|date=2007-12-16}}</ref> |
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Besides anonymous searches, the tool allows users to perform Google searches without receiving [[AdSense|Google advertisements]]. There is support for 28 languages,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scroogle.org/langsup8.html |title=Language Support for Scroogle |accessdate=2008-06-25}}</ref> and the tool is available as a [[browser plug-in]]. |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.scroogle.org/ Scroogle] |
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* [http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm "Scroogle Scraper" search page] |
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* [https://ssl.scroogle.org/ Scroogle SSL-secured search page] |
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* [http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=scroogle Scroogle Firefox plug-ins] |
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[[Category:Google]] |
[[Category:Google]] |
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[[Category:Internet privacy]] |
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[[Category:Internet properties established in 2003]] |
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[[Category:Internet properties disestablished in 2012]] |
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[[Category:Defunct internet search engines]] |
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