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Scroogle Shuts Down Due To DDoS Attacks
- BetaBeat, Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:46 PM
Options to stop Google from gathering browser information dwindled Wednesday with the closure of Scroogle, a proxy search engine that prevented companies from tracking searches, resulting from a series of DDoS attacks, which began in December. Daniel Brandt, the company's founder, also took down another four sites he owns, believing that the hacker attacks were caused by a "personal vendetta."
