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Yes, Scroogle is upset with Google.
1. Google handles 1 billion searches per day, while Scroogle handles 350,000 searches per day. This means that Scroogle is 0.035 percent of Google's load.
2. Google uses 900,000 servers, while Scroogle leases just six low-end dedicated servers.
3. Google has billions and billions of dollars in the bank, while Scroogle is a recognized public charity and survives on modest donations averaging $43 per day.
4. For more than seven years, Scroogle has always made serious efforts to detect and block any and all bots. Almost every Scroogle searcher is a live person clicking on a mouse. Yet Google treats Scroogle like a bot because they see the traffic from our six IP addresses as higher than normal. Searching Google with a bot is against Google's terms of service, but Scroogle users are not bots.
Is it "Terms of Service" for Google, or is it "Terms of Monopoly"?
You can tell the Antitrust Division what you think about Google.
edit: the link above takes you to the ¨contact¨ section of the Dept Of Justice website, so if you don´t want to go there, don´t click it.
Terms of service, sadly. In order to act as a proxy for Google, a system has to get its permission. Google's not stopping anyone from starting a search engine - only riding its own coat tails and stealing its profits. (Corporations are allowed to do that.)
For the times this doesn't clear up, might I recommend
StartPage or another Google search engine? StartPage prides itself on having some decent privacy, and I haven't seen anything online suggesting it's evil. (Nor have I seen anything suggesting Scroogle's evil, and I sincerely hope Scroogle gets this sorted out. We need as many options as we can get to confuse as many people as poss.. er... to give Google a run for its money!)
I use the original ixquick sometimes when scroogle´s down. I enjoy how customizable it is and the ability to both proxy and highlight results. I do wonder about ¨private¨ search engines (like startpage,) that Alex Jones advertises, not that I think he´s a bad guy (an idiot, sometimes, and always a fear monger,) but I´m sure that certain organizations might seek to subvert or corrupt products that align to his audience´s beliefs.
Yeah, I have questioned the privacy of IXquick/Startpage (they're the same service now, using Google to privatise one's search), and StartingPage.com offers searching a collection of other sites, which combines them and ranks accordingly. All run by the same org.
Idiot and fear monger, Jones is. But he's a necessary tool in the weapon against the organisations. If Icke ever started supporting such a service, [i]then[/b] I'd be doing some deep research on it. ;>