note PrakashK <p>You are quite right about the redirecting to Google. The redirection is, however, done by the HTTP Refresh header, rather than via the more common 3xx HTTP Status code.</p> <p>However, Google does not seem to tie the search request to me, at least looking at the search results page. When I am logged in to Google+, I performed a search directly on Google. The results page showed that Google took my online presence into account, as evidenced by the google-bar with my name, and results from Google+ circles etc. I see 8 cookies from google.com and 14 cookies from plus.google.com.</p> <p>Repeating the same search via DDG !g syntax, while still logged in to Google+, I see a different page, with the google-bar asking me to sign in, and generic results from Google+. So, in this case, Google did not associate the search request to my Google account. Also, I see only 8 cookies and no cookies from plus.google.com.</p> <p>This is what I meant by "no-tracking" (poor choice of words, I admit).</p> <p>It is possible that Google could derive some kind of link to me by IP tracking or other means, but they do not <em>seem</em> to be doing it.</p> 952336 953735