Cookie-Cutter Keeps Search Confidential By Mark Chillingworth ...There is growing concern about the amount of information that search engine providers, especially Google, are generating about us as we retrieve information. The antidote could be cookie-free search engine Hakia. ... ...It searches on the basis of meaning rather than keywords, extrapolating the requirements of the searcher from the terms in the search window. Unlike Google, Hakia can’t refer to previous user behaviour because it has no tin of cookies to consult. ... ...So Hakia offers privacy, but does it deliver results? Well, its search performance is impressive, and is not discernibly slower than keyword-based searching. The results highlight the search terms and news appears with a newspaper icon. There are no tabs for different types of search such as books or images. ...