Re: Go
The thing is that there are other search engines that also do the same thing - IxQuick (which you can use directly or through startpage) and I think there are others that either use Google or Bing as a back end, or a meta search (like dogpile used to be).
Seems that competition is alive and well in the privacy enhanced search space to me, it's just the big players that are addicted to their data fix.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
