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Sporkman
May 26th, 2010, 02:37 AM
Privacy-Protecting Search Engine Challenges Google

An ultra-private search engine hopes to attract users tired of handing over personal information.
By Christopher Mims

Google, a company with 20,000 employees and $24 billion in revenue in 2009, is being challenged--by a guy in Philadelphia.

Gabriel Weinberg is the coder behind Duck Duck Go. It's a search engine that is profoundly--some might say radically--private. Unlike Google, it doesn't build a user profile for you, store your IP address, or collect any other information that could ever tie a particular search to you....

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/25224/

pookiebear
May 26th, 2010, 03:49 AM
liking it

lovinglinux
May 26th, 2010, 04:37 AM
First search it froze Firefox and made me kill it.

BTW, why it doesn't use https if it is so concerned about privacy?

jo4hnc
May 26th, 2010, 06:31 AM
Here is another search engine that stresses security, does not record your activity and supports HTTPS. Check it out.

http://www.ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy.html

bashveank
May 26th, 2010, 06:34 AM
I feel like a new one of these pops up every two months.

jo4hnc
May 26th, 2010, 06:45 AM
Ixquick has been around for the last 4 or 5 years. Seems like a pretty decent and grounded site and imho have developed well.

steeleyuk
May 26th, 2010, 09:43 AM
First search it froze Firefox and made me kill it.

BTW, why it doesn't use https if it is so concerned about privacy?

It does if you specify https://

Shpongle
May 26th, 2010, 10:55 AM
Here is another search engine that stresses security, does not record your activity and supports HTTPS. Check it out.

http://www.ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy.html

I currently use this with https on firefox , It works well and lets you access the results through a proxy if you like

lovinglinux
May 26th, 2010, 04:39 PM
It does if you specify https://

](*,) I'm an idiot :)

betrunkenaffe
May 26th, 2010, 05:55 PM
Thanks, added both to firefox search.

pwnst*r
May 26th, 2010, 09:43 PM
"Challenges Google"

That's funny.

aaaantoine
May 26th, 2010, 10:02 PM
I'd prefer if it didn't require JavaScript but I'll try it out and see how I like it.

ubunterooster
May 26th, 2010, 10:08 PM
It does if you specify https://
how?

aaaantoine
May 26th, 2010, 10:11 PM
how?

...

https://duckduckgo.com/

ubunterooster
May 26th, 2010, 10:15 PM
Added it; scroogle has not been as responsive lately.

And I like the "I'm feeling ducky"
:lol: :lol: