Daniel Brandt, well-known for his dislike for some of Google’s actions and the owner of Scroogle, said he may close down the Scroogle web site. Scroogle is known for searching Google but with privacy, they promise to not serve you no cookies, not record search-term and delete all access log deleted within 48 hours.

But when the new Google design launched last week, it made it hard for Scroogle to continue. Scroogle scraps Google results and show them to you on their web site. Technically what Scroogle is doing is against the terms of service, but Google didn’t specifically target Scroogle with this design change – it was collateral damage.

Scroogle posted a notice explaining why some searches no longer work:

Yesterday, it stopped working completely, but it does seem like some of the searches do continue to work.

For some history on Scroogle.org, it was blocked back in 2003 but came back soon after. This site is pretty old, going on 8 years.

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