Unfortunately, Scroogle seems not to be working at the moment.
Searching on the internet, the reason seems to be that either Google is blocking it, or that the site has been hacked by a DDOS.
Whatever the reason, as it is not working I am using an alternative search engine which is http://privatelee.com/
Let me just explain why Scroogle is so important for SEO.
If you have a website and want to know where it ranks on Google for a particular keyword phrase, you can go to Google and scroll down to find out what position your website is in.
The problem with doing it this way is:
1. You may not be in the country which you want to know the position of your site.
2. Your searches are pretty much always personalized depends on which sites you have visited before and other factors also
Up until now, if you use Scroogle, you could enter a keyword phrase and obtain totally unpersonalized results.
As Scroogle is now down, that is not the case so I suggest that for the moment you use http://privatelee.com/
It works reasonably well, although the annoying thing is that it also has results from Yahoo. If you have another alternative, please let me know in the comments.
Keeping it real in an unreal world,
Ben Shaffer
