TIP Nice FireFox Addon !!

TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one's tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with the Firefox Browser and popular search engines (AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN) and requires no 3rd-party servers or services

How It Works
TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN. It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles. To better simulate user behavior TrackMeNot uses a dynamic query mechanism to 'evolve' each client (uniquely) over time, parsing the results of its searches for 'logical' future query terms with which to replace those already used.

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/TrackMeNot/

Looks good, I'm installing just to see if it uses up any resources.

jmcclain said:

Looks good, I'm installing just to see if it uses up any resources.

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It sure sounds like a resource hog.. let us know.

Seems to not be a hog at all.

It will do 10 querys per minute or per hour. It is adjustable that way and you can selrct one or all search engines. I just love this tool. It does not have www.dogpile.com as an engine though and I love that search page. Google is evil

You can log all the searches too. I have wanted something like this for a long time.

I set it for 10 a minute and here is a quick sample of what it searched for.
I have since set it back to 10 per hour

Student Loans,Loans,Nintendo Wii,PSP,Samsung Instinct,Palm Centreo,Garmin Nuvi,Lexus,Chevrolet,Jeep,
Hyundai,Saturn,wiretapping,espn scores,elizabeth hurley,lottery,al gore,obama,wii,prince,drew barrymore,
abu ghraib,sarah silverman,MySpace,Spyware,dragonball,limewire,apple,fashion,tv guide,barbie,neopets,
bit torrent,xbox,angelina jolie,nintendo,jennifer aniston,local weather,anime,jokes,recipes,music lyrics,
games,iraq,global warming,Paris Hilton,Clay Aiken,Youtube,Michael Phelps,Olympics,Pamela Anderson,Facebook,
Madonna,Morgan Freeman,WWE,Britney Spears,Isaac Hayes,John Edwards,Avril Lavigne,Carmen Electra,
Brett Favre,Megan Fox,Poker,Naruto,Jessica Alba,Disney,Leroi Moore,Emma Watson,Heath Ledger,
Jessica Simpson,Miley Cyrus,Salma Hayek,Eva Mendes,Denise Richards,Jonas Brothers,Jennifer Lopez,
Lindsay Lohan,Christian Bale,Rihanna,Honda,southwest airlines,american airlines,united airlines,continental airlines,
delta airlines,us airways,match.com,plentyoffish,singlesnet.com,geico,craigslist,ebay,mapquest,Sarah Palin,Bristol Palin,
Hurricane Hanna,Deal or No Deal,Amazon,One Tree Hill,Gossip Girl,

Hmmm! If I read this correctly, enough people use this you will be protected from searches by the simple reason that every search engine will have crashed from being flooded with 'searches'.

That right?

Google is evil

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It's also still the best, IMO. I get around it by using http://xxx.scroogle.org/scraper.html

Add proxify.org to the mix and I feel fairly safe.

I have a problem with the add-on not allowing you to specify a search engine not included in the list.