Soooo long, Google!

By Darren Weeks

I have officially dropped Google as my site's search engine. It has been replaced with a proxy engine which still uses Google to search, but prevents Google from tracking people's movements on the web.

If anyone wishes to have Google's results, without ending up in Google's Big Brother data base, you can use the search engine on this site. There are no cookies, no advertisements, and IP addresses are deleted after 7 days.

Whether Google Inc. is sincere in its court fight against government snooping or not, the fact still remains that there would be nothing over which to fight, if they didn't save everything you do in their data bases. If the company deleted the information, there would be nothing the government spooks could do. There would be no information to seek.

Another really troubling aspect to the entire Google controversy is the reality that the search engine is presently helping communist China to censor the web. How can we believe that Google has good intentions in America, fighting government snooping, when it is helping a communist regime oppress it's people abroad?

I have long wanted to do this, and today I finally found a solution that would provide results that are equal to Google's, without helping to support Google's business model and invasion of their users' privacy.

For more information about problems with Google privacy, go to Google-Watch.org.