Great little tool for anonynimity against google.

I found a great little tool today that will help keep you anonymous on the web. If your a Firefox user your going to like this Firefox plug-in from security software developer Moxie Marlinspike. He's come up with a way to prevent google from tracking your internet statistics. His plug-in is called GoogleSharing. Not to be confused with "Google Sharing" which is a google product that allows you to share content with your gmail contacts.

What?! google tracks your every move!?
Google has long held the belief that to be an effective search engine it must track, catalog, and analyze every site you visit, terms you search for, and IP address's of your computer. All this information is used to track consumer and economic trends that aid hundreds of thousands if not millions of business's and corporations in market research. Here, see for your self with Google trends.

GoogleSharing
GoogleSharing is not a fully functioning proxy server(what is a proxy server?) but a proxy service specifically designed to reroute your web browser traffic interacting with google services to a GoogleSharing proxy server. Once there your personal information is stripped from your traffic and replaced with a GoogleSharing identity and sent off to google. If you'd like a full explanation of GoogleSharing please click here.

Downside
There is one downside that will eventually disappear as the plug-in undergoes more development. GoogleSharing is currently only available for Firefox: 3.0 – 3.5. This means if you have any other version of Firefox installed on your system you will not be able to use this plug-in.