Scroogle

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Scroogle is a screen-scraping proxy for the Google search engine that circumvents Google's tracking of user activity via cookies. The site also allows users to perform Google searches without receiving Google advertisements. A Yahoo scraper is included. There is support for 28 languages, and Mozilla offers a Scroogle plugin for the Firefox search bar. Scroogle is operated by Google critic Daniel Brandt, who is known for his Google Watch web site.

The cartoons and comments found in scroogle pages suggest that Brandt believes that aspects of Google's operations might have more sinister elements than the average user expects. As of October 2005, Scroogle was handling 15,000 searches per day. The source code for the scraper, written in 'C' for compilation on a Linux box, is available on the site.

External links

• http://www.scroogle.org/
• Scroogle source code

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