Privacy Winning Search Engine War

amigoro writes "Privacy is emerging as the real winner of the Internet search engine war as companies aggressively compete with one another by offering stronger protections for user records, a report published today by the Center for Democracy and Technology concluded. The report notes that until recently, most of the major Internet search engines kept detailed and potentially personally identifiable records of their customers' searches indefinitely. But today the companies are trying to outdo each other in privacy protection by announcing steps to delete old user data, strip the personally identifiable information out of stored search records, and, in one case, give users the option to have all of their search records deleted."

Comments

the internet is really great...

[weak*]

I haven't actually looked, but I'm POSITIVE that Booble is leading the way here.

Re:you know this kind of reminds me of

[Mistlefoot]

Don't worry. You have nothing to fear.

Cnet, phonescoop, slashdot, angelfire, ebay, livejournal, boston.com, viewscore, silverscreeninfo, aolmobile, chicagotribune, sympatico-msn.ca,

And I only looked at the first 3 pages!

http://www.google.ca/search?q=wamerocity&hl=en&cli ent=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=KN c&start=0&sa=N/

And yes, I know. I'm there too. :P

Re:The Four Great Lies

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably a broke dude who asked the government for help and now has a bad taste in his mouth.

Re:you know this kind of reminds me of

[conteXXt]

Dude!!!! Do me next!

P.S. (only # 6 is really me :-)

The google.

[WK2]

I just happen to be an internet user and I thought the google was the only search engine.

Privacy wins the gold!

[Arthur Grumbine]

In a stunning finale Privacy has defeated both Corporate Greed, and Governmental Curiosity in a come-from-behind victory. Although Privacy is usually the one approached from behind by the other two contenders, in the Great Search-Engine Race of 2007 Privacy managed to squeak out a win from the competition. This is what Privacy had to say when we approached it about this completely unexpected and unheralded victory:

"Uh...no comment?"

Fantastic words from a fantastic Ideal. Back to you, Bob.