Between their troubles with Google throttling their ability to run searches and a major DDOS attack it appears to have gone away - possibly for good this time.
In the message which, I believe it was Critter, found he suggested as an alternate search engine, which anonymizes, duckduckgo.com
I've given it a try or two and it seems to work reasonably well.
duckduckgo is working out OK for me, but I would probably go back to Scroogle if they were resurrected, just out of some illogical sense of loyalty :-o