Barry Schwartz covered the full story of Scroogle’s closing for Search Engine Land. Here’s the short version: about a week ago, Google began blocking the site. The privacy search engine, online since 2003, worked by scraping Google’s results without passing along any identifiable information or keeping any itself – thus giving users a measure of privacy they lacked when searching directly at Google itself. Getting blocked in this way might not have killed Scroogle so quickly, but the site also fell victim to a stream of distributed denial of service attacks that started back in December. W…
Searching Privately in a Post-Scroogle World
by | Feb 23, 2012 | Cape News, UPDATE | 2 comments
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When I search something, sometimes google says it found results on my documents. How do I get it to not show my documents?
How do I get our news articals from our website on the Google search list?