If you want to prevent companies from being able to use your search history to create virtual models of yourself in order to target advertising or inform intelligence agencies… try duckduckgo… I’ve been using it for a while now… it’s fast, simple and takes two minutes to change… simply type “Make DuckDuckGo your Default Search Engine” into your default browser and follow the instructions. This simple act has the potential to protect your data and help release the grip that Google has been gaining over internet services. This is one more simple step to a truly democratic, decentralised future where no-one has control over our access to information.
Ian H Powell 
Just found you today and it looks like a good find. I’ll be visiting as time allows.
I use DuckDuckGo as well as StartPage and Gibiru. All claim to protect one’s anonymity. Do they? Your guess is as good as mine. I use them to spite google as much as anything else. Gibiru also offers a VPN service called AnonymoX. There is a bare-bones free version and more comprehensive paid subscription version offering many more servers globally.
Now for a quick tour of your blog.
Anon
Richard