I noticed a new referrer link on my blog tonight (scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi) and I thought, why does that sound so familiar, so I hit up scroogle.org. And who did I discover, but my old friends from Google Watch (I have written about these guys in other blogs and have been a supporter for a long time.)
Google is creepy and possibly evil; might I recommend you to stay off their chat and search engine?
Scroogle.org states and I agree, “Not only does Google scrape much of the web, but they keep records of who searches for what. If information about your searching is accessible by cookie ID or by your IP address, it is subject to subpoena. This is a violation of your privacy. Someday Google’s data retention practices will be regulated, because Google is too arrogant to do the right thing voluntarily. In the meantime, you should not be leaving your fingerprints in Google’s databases.”
Here is a link to how Scroogle’s SSL option protects your privacy.
So you can use Scroogle.org to search the internet and here is a cool option for a chat service that will not keep your chats indefinitely, that I use. They are Zoho Chat. They have a bunch of other features you can check out at their site. I use their Chat and their Project’s application, which is also cool and can be found at Zoho.com. I found this site after I refused to get on Google to chat, so thanks to Zoho everyone can chat Google free!
Google is not cool.
-Cara
The Day After An Inconvenient Truth 
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August 20, 2008 at 6:44 am
Lara Stuart-Mueller
Yes, Google is doing something that should actually be illegal.
There is not end to the damage they are doing to the original concept of the Internet, and any hope of it ever having that.
I really support Scroogle, and I am glad they take a head-on approach to confronting Google, because I see too that there are a myriad big problems with the way things are on the internet, especially as Google is handling things.
August 20, 2008 at 6:49 am
Lara Stuart-Mueller
Ya, also.
Support a democratic Internet. Somebody should really watch Google, and the rest of them, and it should be a democratic society:
http://www.petitiononline.com/wwwlegis/petition.html
:)
August 20, 2008 at 11:08 am
Cara
Lara,
Right on! I am glad you like Scroogle. I use this link http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm as my homepage. I like having control over my privacy, since google is “free” you are denied that privacy.
It is interesting how easy people give up their freedom and privacy to hold onto that money. It is ridiculous how ignorant people allow themselves to be when it is convenient.
Take care,
Cara