Here is a 10 points simple how to about your precious privacy.
Every time you use Google, Yahoo or MSN Search, your searches and what you are searching for, when, from which IP, country, and so on, are logged by complex information systems. Something like a 1984 - Big Brother…

If you want to preserve your privacy follow this simple rules:

1. use an anonymizing service, if not go to point 2


2. do not login in search engines or related services before searching (eg. Hotmail for MsnSearch or Gmail for Google)


3. periodically delete all cookies


4. block search engines domain sites to set cookies on your hard disk




• In Firefox 2, select Tools / Options, select the Privacy tab, and click Exceptions. Then type http://www.google.com/ into the “Address of Web site” box and click Block.


• In Internet Explorer 7, for example, choose Tools / Internet Options, click the Privacy tab, then click the Sites button. In the “Address of Web site” box, type in http://www.google.com/, and click Block.


5. have you an assigned dynamic IP? So, sometimes (one time a day for example) turn off your PC and your DSL modem for about 10 minutes. You will get a new dynamic IP, so tracers can’t associate it with the older one.


6. use meta-search-engines friends of privacy like www.ixquick.com


7. do not include personal informations in your search queries


8. do not search for private things when using public hot spots


9. do not use your ISP search engines


10. periodically delete all Flash Player Local Shared Objects (aka the Flash cookies):
    to do that go to
    Go to Flash player Settings Manager »
    and in the Adobe Flash Player Settings Management, click on [Delete All]