What Happened to Scroogle Scraper? Scroogle Alternatives

Over the last few months I've noticed when I tried to use scroogle.org I would get a "Google is mad at us message" and not be able to use it.

Then a few days when I went to scroogle.org - I got a "site does not exist" result? Now it all comes a bit clearer with the comments of Scroogle's founder, Daniel Brandt at BetaBeat 

In short it wasn't Google that shut down scroogle.org, it was hackers flooding the site with denial of service attacks. I've no idea why hackers would attack one of the sites that gave us an alternative to Google - but there you go. It sounds like scroogle is gone, and gone for good this time.

Many of us used Scroogle to very quickly check either our own rankings on the first page of the results, or the competition on that page. I use other rank tracking software to do this on a large scale, but Scroogle was fast for a one-off question.

Some beginners may wonder why I didn't just use google itself to check? Well the answer is - I can't trust Google - Google will show you and I very different results - I live in New Zealand - if I search "credit cards" I will find NZ banks, if you do - you will get something different. Even worse Google will artificially put sites I "like" a lot e.g. the sites I own, on page 1 for me, but for no one else!

As an Internet Marketer I need to know what strangers see in the results for a term - not what I see. That's why many of us used Scroogle.

Equally I'm not interested in what other search engines show, because the vast majority of people still use Google - so that's the only search engine my rankings matter in.

I've found a couple of options - pagewash seems the best at the moment.

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