I noticed yesterday when using search.disconnect that they said Google was temporarily unavailable. I didn't think much of it, but tried again today and both my laptop PC and Android phone show the same message that Google is unavailable. Has anyone else seen this? I've been using this search provider for about s year and it has been great up until now.
You are not the only one This has been mentioned on their twitter-account yesterday: "We're working on a solution"
Disconnect Search is defaulting to Bing for me with the message "Google is currently unavailable in Disconnect Search." I wonder if Google cut them off like they did to Scroogle.com a few years ago. Disconnect Search always returned better results for me than other Google proxies like Startpage, so I hope it returns soon.
Agreed. I found they were much better than start page or duckduckgo. It's starting to look like it is more than a temporary problem. That would be too bad as it was my goto search proxy.
I have disconnect premium which uses a VPN to connect ot the net, if I have this do I even need to use the Disconnect Search browser plugin to search Google?
Disconnect Search now defaults to DuckDuckGo search, with Google no longer an option from the drop-down menu (only Yahoo and Bing).
Southpark, thanks for posting that above as I had not seen anything as to why this happened. In the meantime I've run extensive tests comparing DuckDuck and StartPage vs Google and StartPage wins hands down. The results have actually been very good and I'm happy using them at this time.
I've found a service that's nearly identical to how Disconnect proxied Google: https://searx.me I don't know much about the company behind it, though it offers unfiltered searches and allows viewing of cached results.
