“With 200 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved.”
–from And Then There Were Four, which explains nine problems with Google.

Google Watch: Google’s monopoly, algorithms, and privacy policies. “‘We are moving to a Google that knows more about you.’ —Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking to financial analysts, February 9, 2005, as quoted in the New York Times the next day.”

How to search privately using Google:
Scroogle Scraper crumbles, blocks ads, and protects your privacy.

• Scroogle Scraper: No cookies, no search-term records, access log deleted within 48 hours.
• Even better: Scroogle Scraper with SSL: Scroogle uses SSL “to hide your search terms from anyone who might be monitoring traffic between your browser and Scroogle’s servers.” (Learn how Scroogle’s SSL option protects your privacy.)

Tags: privacy

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