I'm not amazed at all. I would guess that most violators of Google's terms of service don't even get noticed by Google until and unless their actions begin to

I'm not amazed at all. I would guess that most violators of Google's terms of service don't even get noticed by Google until and unless their actions begin to significantly impact Google's bottom line or Google feels threatened in some other way. The API changes that resulted in Scroogle no longer being able to get results from Google may not have had anything to do with Scroogle violating Google's terms of service. But if it did, then it's likely Scroogle was performing a significant number of searches and Google noticed. This would lead me to believe that there is a serious demand among a significant number of Google's customers for more privacy, and Google itself was not meeting that demand. I hope other privacy-respecting search engines step up to the plate and fill the void left by Scroogle's demise.