Global Intellect

Did you know that every Google search you make is
recorded and archived by the company?

Privacy-minded folks point out that as Google has
become part of our everyday lives, our tastes and
preferences on the net give away a lot more than we’d
normally share with a stranger, let alone a
corporation with nearly 14,000 employees worldwide.

While Google keeps your search terms until 2038, the
folks at Scroogle delete the logs after 48 hours and
vow to keep no cookies. What’s better is the search
uses Google’s own technology. In technospeak, it
randomly generates an IP number (the thing that allows your
computer to be ID’d) and sends your request off to
Google. When Google responds, it shows you the search
results. Hence the name, as it “scrapes” the search engine giant to
get results.

It’s a shoe-string operation put together by the folks
at GoogleWatch (founded
by an ex-Google employee) and only handles about
90,000 searches a day compared to Google’s 200
million.
Still, Scroogle is one way […]

Original post by Jacob Resneck