It is a well known fact that google stores all your searches for a period of at least two year. If you want to know what that means you have to look no further than the AOL scandal. You can search the database of 658,000 AOL subscribers yourself. Just enter a “Search Keyword” and find who searched for it then click on a “User ID” to find what else this user searched for. And remember that it also was very to tie the “User ID” to the person behind this number. Not only did they knew what you were looking for, but also who and when.

Fortunately there is a solution: the ixquick meta searchengine. Ixquick states that:

• You have a right to privacy.
• Your search data should never fall into the wrong hands.
• The only real solution is deleting your data.
• We delete our users’ privacy data within 48 hrs.
• We are the first and only search engine to do so.

Where are you waiting for? Hurry and trade in you old searchegine!

Update: 

You can also use scroogle  to 

anonymously search with google.

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