GoogleSharing

GoogleSharing is a special kind of anonymizing proxy service, designed for a very specific threat. It ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit. GoogleSharing is not a full proxy service designed to anonymize all your traffic, but rather something designed exclusively for your communication with Google. The system is totally transparent, with no special "alternative" websites to visit. Your normal work flow should be exactly the same.

GoogleSharing is different from general anonymizing proxies:

1. Most will mask your IP address, but not the identifying information in your HTTP headers. Google will still know who you are based on your Cookies, User Agent, etc.
2. If the proxy does attempt to anonymize HTTP headers, they will do it by completely stripping cookies from your request. Google does not like this, and will tag you as a SPAM bot (how convient for them to do), which will force you to type in a CAPTCHA every time you issue a Google search, and will prevent you from issuing Maps requests at all.
3. These types of proxies can be slow. It's not necessary to proxy all of your internet traffic if you're just trying to protect yourself from Google. Since GoogleSharing only proxies Google traffic, our bandwidth needs are much lower and thus our performance is much greater.

GoogleSharing is different from Google replacements:

1. GoogleSharing does not require that users change their workflow by visiting different websites.
2. GoogleSharing supports all Google services which don't require a login, so it does more than just anonymize search. As Google continues to expand its grasp of the internet, GoogleSharing will automatically expand with it, automatically anonymizing whatever new services emerge in a fully transparent way.
3. GoogleSharing has the potential to be fully distributed. As we make the move towards distributing requests across multiple configured servers, this is a definite step in the direction of P2P.