Google won't let Scroogle search engine operate
Submitted by meekandmild on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 14:22when you try to use Scroogle a screen appears stating:
Forbidden so sorry...
Google is blocking this Scroogle server.
Yes, Scroogle is upset with Google.
1. Google handles 1 billion searches per day, while Scroogle handled 350,000 searches per day. This means that Scroogle was 0.035 percent of Google's load.
2. Google owns 900,000 servers, while Scroogle leased just six low-end dedicated servers.
3. Google has $45 billion in the bank, while Scroogle is a recognized public charity that survived 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 IP addresses as higher than normal. Searching Google with a bot is against Google's terms of service, but Scroogle users are not bots.
Is it "Terms of Service" for Google, or is it "Terms of Monopoly"?
You can tell the Federal Trade Commission what you think about Google. antitrust@ftc.gov
Daniel Brandt's leaked Wikipedia Review post
http://www.betabeat.com/2012/02/15/scroogle-may-have-been-a-...
http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/File:DanielBrandtFriendsOfRy...
Encyclopedia Dramatica leaked a Wikipedia Review post by Brandt that explains why Scroogle is really down.
Google is a private company
... and are free to block anyone they wish. Those are the risks you take when your project depends on a private entity acting in a certain way.
BTW, if you really want to stay anonymous, or avoid ads when searching Google, there are more effective ways to go about it than Scroogle. Scroogle was just one of the more convenient ways.
Does Google own the net?
Why are they allowed to block others from competing on the net?
Do you have to use Google to get online? Why does Google get to say who and how a person or company can use the net?
they're not doing that at all
It's their indexes. Googled indexed them from scratch. Anyone can do this.
The more appropriate question is: why won't Scroogle spend their own resources indexing the web instead of taking Google's index info without permission?
If I walked behind you and repeated everything you said, you'd get annoyed, and would likely be unfazed if I defended myself by saying "I'm doing it for charity!"
"You underestimate the character of man." | "So be off now, and set about it."
because all it does is scrape Google w/o their permission
that's like me real-time bootlegging your live solo performance at a concert over to a group other than the audience. You probably wouldn't be happy about it, and no one would think to frame it in terms of a monopoly.
"You underestimate the character of man." | "So be off now, and set about it."
Just use
https://www.ixquick.com/
Well played - you beat me to it
I was checking to see if anyone had mentioned yet. Startpage.com also good...I believe pretty much the same thing & company just with name easier to remember.
Yes!
I always use startpage.com as they promote themselves as the most private search engine and do not store your searches...
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