No, I don't think 'in this day and age' that my searches are guaranteed to remain private. However, I would much rather put that information in the hands of pe

No, I don't think 'in this day and age' that my searches are guaranteed to remain private. However, I would much rather put that information in the hands of people that aren't going to use naive arguments such as 'if you have nothing to hide...'. As such, important mail comes to my own server on my own MX records, as such it may pass through a couple of hands before reaching me, but in the majority of cases, those hands will be hands I cannot remove from the loop (the sender's network admin & ISP, my ISP to a degree, etc). My searches go to ixquick, who understand that people may want their searches to be 'private'. Most of us that value privacy don't have some foolish notion that our privacy is absolute and guaranteed. We just value people/services that realise that privacy isn't something to be thrown aside when a couple of extra cents can be earnt. And yes, before you point it out, I know I'm paranoid, you can take it up with my doctor - oh, wait, they don't discuss patient cases with random strangers, again something google tried to subvert with their google health project (whatever happened to that? maybe they realised they couldn't profitize it legally)