At least post the URL
Cheers. Typed in Scroogle.com and got a bloody porn site.
It's Scroogle.org.
Scroogle is back, once again serving up privacy-friendly Google search results, a day after a sudden change to google.com shut down the swashbuckling service. The not-for-profit Scroogle stopped working on Monday, when Mountain View removed the interface page - google.com/ie - where it was scraping search results. Speaking …
I just searched in google with "site:news.bbc.co.uk google buzz" and these are the top six entries:
BBC News - Google admits Buzz social network testing flaws
BBC News - Google Buzz 'breaks privacy laws' says watchdog
BBC News - Google rolls out privacy reset for Buzz social network
Google answers privacy questions
BBC News - Google takes on Facebook and Twitter with network site
BBC News - Google rapped over privacy issues by 10 nations
So one article out of six that's remotely favourable means thinking it's "the hottest shit since sliced bread"...?
It is my understanding that Google's API is tracked on usage, and you are limited to a certain number of "transactions" (calls) daily. For individual usage, it is a freakish amount (25.000?) per day, but a business can hit that surprisingly quickly.
A proxy of Scroogle's size would hit it within hours.
I don't appreciate people messing up a running service just to pile on pressure to remove IE6. This is because I work in a large company, which keeps up on IT trends with a lag time of 5 years. Of course I run the most modern browsers at home, but I need internet access for my job, don't I?
This gripe applies to El Reg designers as much as to Google's.
Welcome to the dole queue for gross misconduct - namely circumventing company security policy. Which is exactly how it would be viewed by management (if not by the probably fairly sympathetic IT dept) which they would no doubt explain as security escort you from the building.
A Very Bad Idea without blessing from above.
Steven R
I'm having a Hell of a time viewing this in 16 colours in IE5 on Windows 3.1. Come on El'Reg, sort it out.
The purpose of the IT dept is to provide IT services so that non-IT workers can perform their jobs. If you cannot do your job because your browser is out of date, that is your IT depts. failure, not Google's or The Registers.
Perhaps you should ask them to get with the times. :-)
Beer for the downtime while IT update your systems.
I don't mean to steal AC's right to reply here, but seeing as I've got nothing better to do... Two privacy-respecting search engines I use (apart from Scroogle) are yauba.com and ixquick.com . Very handy as Scroogle doesn't have an image search, and I for one don't want Google logging my image searches (those searches for "1/16 scale model tank porn" are sure to be used against me someday).