Scroogle ..... ?
you will find this ....
Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google since January 2000, used to work for the National Security Agency.
Keyhole, the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in October 2004, was funded by the CIA.
"We are moving to a Google that knows more about you." — Google CEO Eric Schmidt, February 9, 2005Since 2000, Google has recorded your search terms, the date-time of each search, the globally-unique ID in your cookie (it expires in 2038), and your IP address. This information is available to governments on request. If your favorite site features a Google search box, ask them to install their own local site search. They could also use our site search for webmasters, which shows the same results without the tracking.
Wikipedia says .....
Scroogle is a screen-scraping proxy for the Google search engine that circumvents Google's tracking of user activity via cookies. The site also allows users to perform Google searches without receiving Google advertisements. A Yahoo scraper is included. There is support for 28 languages, and Mozilla offers a Scroogle plugin for the Firefox search bar. Scroogle is operated by Google critic Daniel Brandt, who is known for his Google Watch web site.
The cartoons and comments found in scroogle pages suggest that Brandt believes that aspects of Google's operations might have more sinister elements than the average user expects. As of October 2005, Scroogle was handling 15,000 searches per day. The source code for the scraper, written in 'C' for compilation on a Linux box, is available on the site.
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