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Scroogle Is Gone Again
Date: July 02, 2010 12:38AM
Just got the Scroogle is gone message again during a search. They say that this time it may be for good. Let's hope not....
Re: Scroogle Is Gone Again
Date: July 07, 2010 12:53PM
Scroogle is on again....
Re: Scroogle Is Gone Again
Date: July 08, 2010 12:07AM
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Zoohooter
Scroogle is on again....
ZAoohooter,
Anyone got a clue as to why Scroogle went away and how it is that they are now working once again?
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Re: Scroogle Is Gone Again
Posted by:
slayer
Date: July 08, 2010 08:59PM
I got this from the Scroogle site:
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Scroogle
If you arrived here because you followed a link in recent stories about Scroogle's downtime on 2010-07-01, please be advised that Scroogle is now operating normally. Google has not restored the old simple interface so we are using a different one. We're not happy about this because the file we have to fetch from Google is three times more bloated for the same results. Also, our
malware problem continues as before.
Re: Scroogle Is Gone Again
Date: January 19, 2012 10:59AM
Forbidden
so sorry...
Google is temporarily blocking this Scroogle server.
Please wait ten minutes before trying again.
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.
Re: Scroogle Is Gone Again
Date: January 22, 2012 06:15AM
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panzer
Forbidden
so sorry...
Google is temporarily blocking this Scroogle server.
Please wait ten minutes before trying again.
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.
panzer,
Scroogle http is definitely gone, but SSL is still working.
Scroogle SSL
https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=
P.S. SIGH Goggle just blocked Scroogle SSL
P.P.S. It is working again. I don't get it? Could it be session cookies that make it fail? OR?
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/22/2012 06:54PM by ndebord.
Re: Scroogle Is Gone Again
Date: March 01, 2012 03:55AM
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Zoohooter
Just got the Scroogle is gone message again during a search. They say that this time it may be for good. Let's hope not....
Zoohooter,
Definitely dead, many DNS attacks and Google wanted it gone and so it is.
Try Startpage instead:
http://startpage.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=
It preserves some privacy and also uses the Google engine.
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Re: Scroogle Is Gone Again
Posted by:
km2
Date: March 05, 2012 01:39PM
Re: Scroogle Is Gone Again
Date: March 08, 2012 02:10PM
km2,
What is this extra stuff for? Or perhaps the question is, what does it do?
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Re: Scroogle Is Gone Again
Posted by:
km2
Date: March 10, 2012 11:36AM
@ ndebord
Have no idea..
For tracking maybe, for collect some data and create statistics what user search, what sites visited, etc..
Re: Scroogle Is Gone Again
Date: March 10, 2012 01:06PM
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km2
@ ndebord
Have no idea..
For tracking maybe, for collect some data and create statistics what user search, what sites visited, etc..
km2,
Whatever it is, it can't be good. <sigh>
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Re: Scroogle Is Gone Again
Posted by:
km2
Date: March 10, 2012 02:04PM
For marketing guy, it can be good, for example..
Re: Scroogle Is Gone
Posted by:
km2
Date: March 11, 2012 11:42AM
Hey scambuster,
thanks for the reply..
Re: startpage
Posted by:
km2
Date: June 17, 2012 07:29PM
So, connect to startpage.com through TLS not possible anymore?
Any equivalent to startpage but through http?
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Re: startpage
Date: June 17, 2012 08:59PM
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km2
So, connect to startpage.com through TLS not possible anymore?
Any equivalent to startpage but through http?
..
km2,
Not sure, but this is what I use for Startpage.
http://startingpage.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=
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Re: startpage
Posted by:
km2
Date: June 18, 2012 05:53AM
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https://startingpage.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=
ndebord,
thanks for the trick...
startpage.com through tls works again..
Cheers.
Re: startpage
Date: June 18, 2012 01:43PM
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km2
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https://startingpage.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=
ndebord,
thanks for the trick...
startpage.com through tls works again..
Cheers.
km2,
I believe there are more than a few different ways to employ StartPage, but am not sure.
<g>
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Re: startpage
Posted by:
km2
Date: June 19, 2012 08:34AM
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https://eu3.startpage.com/do/search?q=
at least one more..
Re: startpage
Date: June 20, 2012 02:51AM
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km2
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https://eu3.startpage.com/do/search?q=
at least one more..
km2,
There you go, the secure version. Nice!
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