Great Privacy Search Alternatives To Scroogle (Updated)

Scroogle has been down for more than three days now. My quest for an alternative to Scroogle has led me on a major online quest. I emailed Danny Sullivan of Searchengine Land for some alternatives to Scroogle. It turns out there are some. He was kind enough to email me back the following options:

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html

There’s also Ixquick:
https://www.ixquick.com/eng/privacy-policy.html

Ask Eraser might still operate:
http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/about/askeraser.shtml#1

Google Encrypted Search:
https://encrypted.google.com/

I‘ve settled down on two after checking them all out.

DuckDuckGo – full privacy searching and a cool new ‘infinite scrolling’ feature . i.e if we find the top ten search results on duckduckgo insufficient, all we need to do is scroll down. Duckduckgo instantaneously serves up more results. You can do so continuously until you find the results you want.
 Check it out here. (Remember, duckduckgo is also available without the encrypted privacy feature)

Google Encrypted Search- This I feel is just like using Scroogle. I can search for upto 100 results at a time without signing on to Google. Moreover, Google allows us to completely disable our search results.  Check out Google Encrypted Search here

(Note: The easiest way to ensure you are searching with privacy is to make sure https:// and NOT http:// is active. Alternately you will always notice a yellow lock symbol on the left-hand side of the address bar)

I found Ixquick too slow for my liking and Ask Eraser no longer works.

If you are really keen about privacy searching you need to check out this new, opensource, decentralized, collaborative search engine.

Let me know what you feel.

P.S- I've given detailed instructions on how to integrate DuckDuckGo and Google Encrypted Search into your favourite browser. Check it out here.

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