Have you heard of the new search engine Stealth? Well, this new search engine is of course an alternative to Google, Bing & Yahoo. The big company promise is that all searchers are done without the chance of being tracked and followed throughout the web.
According to Stealth founder Jon Cook, the search engine does not store cookies, IP addresses or search history. On its website, Stealth lists a series of reasons to use its engine, rather than Google. Almost all of the 30 reasons have to do with privacy violation accusations aimed at Google.
As most of you have read over the last few weeks, Google’s privacy policy has been changed due to complaints that arose after Google launched Search, plus Your World in January. There are over 30 reasons why Stealth suggest you use them over Google but among the most interesting argument against Google on Stealth’s “Reasons to Switch” page is a claim that Google’s site indexing is illegal and the use of “Super Cookies”! High quality global journalism requires investment.
The overhaul seems set to trigger fresh scrutiny from privacy advocates, some of whom have already expressed concerns about recent Google moves to utilise user personal data gathered in one service to power others. This month, Google prompted questions when it began to use information from its Google+ social network in its search engine results, signalling its most ambitious attempt yet to gain an edge over rivals by linking two of its main services.
“Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the internet, Google’s cache copy appears to be illegal,” the website says. “The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a ‘noarchive’ meta in the header of every page on his site.” While also addressing “Super Cookies” “We agree with Congress that supercookies are really deceptive, evil, and malicious. Stealth doesn’t use any supercookies at all.”
Essentially, the company believes you should have to opt in to Google’s features, rather than the current stats that requires used to opt out of Google services. Other search engines using simillar models have seen surges since the controversy surrounding Google arose.
Users aren’t too happy about the infusion of social data into Google search results. Brafton recently reported that more than half of respondents to a survey do not like the idea of Google using Google+ data in search results.
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