Re: I zap Google cookies but it tracks me by IP - what else?

Re: I zap Google cookies but it tracks me by IP - what else?
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Re: I zap Google cookies but it tracks me by IP - what else? Ant 01-20-2006
Posted by Ant on January 20, 2006, 9:32 pm
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"WM" wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4631924.stm
>
> I zap my Google browser cookies but now I learn from the recent news
> that Google tracks every inquiry I made including my IP number. I
> guess there's no way to prevent it.
>
> As I'm on cable and my IP address hasn't changed in months then
> Google can reliably track my interests, habits, preferences, shop
> sites, etc etc. I have nothing to hide but I'm not sure I want
> Google to keep all that data about me.
>
> What good alternatives are there to Google as a regular search
> engine?

Try the Google scraper at http://www.scroogle.org/



Posted by Patrick Schaaf on January 21, 2006, 1:45 am
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>Try the Google scraper at http://www.scroogle.org/

Which then will be able to track the OP.

Posted by Zak on January 22, 2006, 10:38 pm
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On 21 Jan 2006, Ant wrote:

>
>> What good alternatives are there to Google as a regular search
>> engine?
>
> Try the Google scraper at http://www.scroogle.org/
>
>
>


Nice. I found this syntax to use as a shortcut to call Scroogle:
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi?q=%s

BTW does anyone know what tweaks are needed to get Google (or
Scroogle) to return more than a two line extract of the found item?

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