What your searches say about you
Posted by Jeff August 11, 2006
AOL has leaked a bunch of customer search data, and Rod points to an excruciating example, “Anonymous” User 711391. Scary– Essentially a longitudinal search history of the (wife? family?) providing an XRay view of marital woes and medical conditions.
Scroogle scrapes Google, while deidentifying your searches. Although Google stood up to the feds, searches are still going into a database somewhere. Default search providers and search traffic are a big deal. Google search is default in Firefox, so it’s the path of least resistance. I want to make Scroogle my default.
