The owner of Scroogle, Daniel Brandt, said last week that the site was blocked by Google.
Scroogle was initially created for users who did not want Google tracking their searches back to them. The search engine was scrapping Google's search results for almost a decade, without breaching any privacy policy. Now Google took it down “forever”, said Brandt.
I no longer have any domains online. I also took all my domains out of DNS because I want to signal to the criminal element that I have no more servers to trash. This hopefully will ward off further attacks on my previous providers.
I am a bit surprised the service is offline; it has been available since 2003 and has been through tough times with both Google and attacks.
Scroogle purpose was not as a privacy protection service but to show owners of websites to check on whether they’d lost rankings due to a major search algorithm change, modified by Google.
Since Daniel Brandt and Scroogle were e anti Google’s practices and policies, Google has found a way apparently to kill any competition or “enemies” who exposed the search engine manipulations.
Lucky for Scroogle fans and in the spirit of freedom of privacy and appearent contemparry anti google privacy sentiment, a clone site appears to now be available at http://scrogle.org. Simply eliminating one of the "o"s gets you right back to the good old Scroogle.
