Online Privacy Measures
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The follow list contains solutions to Online Privacy Problems that individuals face everyday. The list is a work in progress.
Problem/Solution
Search Engines Collect & Retain Your Searches
Modern Search Engines (like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc) collect information on you and your search habits. They keep track of what you search for, linking it to your IP, and storing it for 6-18 months.
SOLUTION:
StartPage Startpage is a company out of the Netherlands that runs a search engine proxy. Basically, you submit your search to them, they strip off all of the extra data that identifies you and then they send the search to Google. They get the results back and pass them back to you. In this way Google sees the searches coming from Startpage but is unable to link the search to you.
