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Re:Scroogle, Privacy-First Search Engine, Shuts Down for Good by greyman on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @07:41PM (#3618707)
Killing Google's cookies will not make your search anonymous, since you can still be identified by your IP address.
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Re:Scroogle, Privacy-First Search Engine, Shuts Down for Good by pconf on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:21PM (#3618866)
Not just IP address but also browser signature, screen size and resolution, javascript settings and anything else in the HTTP header. See http://browserspy.dk/ for details.
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Re:Scroogle, Privacy-First Search Engine, Shuts Down for Good by andrewcooke on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @10:30PM (#3619314)
yes, i know (and also browser fingerprinting if they really wanted to), but do they do that? as far as i know, they do not (likely for various reasons - bad press, confusion of people behind NATs, etc).

[i mean, more exactly, that i have heard nothing about them updating personal information with data from searches when not logged in; i am not talking aggregate info like typical searches from geoip locations]

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