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Mele20 · (This post was last modified: Mar. 11, 2012 09:48 AM by Mele20.)

Sorry, I haven't been back here sooner. After Scroogle was taken down, I was really depressed. I finally started using StartPage because it doesn't record your IP or save the searches. But after several weeks of using it, it is not very good. It does give me 100 results per page. I also tried duckduckgo which is really bad search results but is privacy oriented. The best search results are Bing and Google. How come Proxo doesn't filter Bing? I'd use it if Proxo filtered it. It is just as good, I think, as Google for results.

Anyhow, it looks like I have to use Google if I want good search results (how I miss Scroogle)! Here's what is going on with Google now and ads and the missing 100 results per page.

Sidki 2010:

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I get ONLY 10 results per page. I get ads at the top and the bottom. Ad are LOCALIZED! Google is using my IP address which it has pinpointed to my hometown. Even my ISP doesn't do this! My ISP has all IP addresses for the entire state put in a town on another island and most sites think that I am in that town, on another island, but Google has found my actual town and localizes the ads when I use Sidki 2010 filters so that it shows me a map and an ad for a LOCAL store here selling "hard drives" that I searched for. I DO NOT WANT ANY OF THIS!

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Proxo disabled:

Same as Sidki 2010. Except that I have JJoe's filter on Sidki 2010 to color the Google bar at the top something other than black and I have Ozo's filter that hides the left side column on Google search results. Other than those two things, search with Prox DISABLED is exactly the same as with Proxo enabled with Sidki 2010 filters.

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Sidki Feb 2009:

Ads at the top but NO ads at the bottom! I see the left side column junk and can't hide it. Google shows my home town and the ads at the top are localized.

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I see 100 results per page! This really puzzles me. How come I get 100 results per page with this old Sidki set and only 10 with his latest set?

Google says that if I want to CHANGE the localization that I MUST allow cookies. I thought Proxo was giving it a cookie. I don't want to sign up for a Google account and I will NOT do so as that is the kiss of death for one's privacy. But I want my localization to be "USA" (much BROADER in other words) NOT my hometown!

Plus, I want Proxo to filter out the ads at the top and the bottom. Sidki 2010 is not filtering ads at all. I might as well not be using Proxo at Google search.

It would be nice if Proxo also filtered out all the irrelevant junk on the page like RELATED SEARCHES FOR "HARD DRIVE" at the top with the categories "Stores" and "Brands".

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I would also like Proxo to filter out the junk at the bottom of the page: Searches Related to Hard Drives and then Google lists a bunch of KEYWORDS.

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What I want is a CLEAN search results page like I got with Scroogle and like I used to get with Proxo. I realize Google has made a lot of changes since I last saw clean Google search results pages and I have been using Scroogle for at least two years so I have been oblivious to some of the Google changes until now that I can't use Scroogle, but surely there is way to have Proxo filter better and give me 100 results per page like Sidki 2009 still does.

The screenshots are from Fx 4.01. I see the same behavior on Fx 10 Enterprise on a virtual machine.

BTW, Ozo's filter to toggle the left side column on search results is NOT working on SeaMonkey 2.6.1. I don't see the column but there is NO toggle switch if I do want to see it. (I don't have the very latest SM because I am waiting on an extension to be compatible but I will install version 2.8 as soon as it is released as it fixes a long standing bug that is very irritating and possibly Ozo's filter will work then).