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Will Privacy Sell?

Posted by Zonk on from the one-of-the-few-things dept.

DeeQ writes "Ask.com is betting that it will. The search engine is working on a service called AskEraser that will attempt to obscure the searches a user enters into the site. 'Some privacy experts doubt that concerns about privacy are significant enough to turn a feature like AskEraser into a major selling point for Ask.com. The search engine accounted for 4.7 percent of all searches conducted in the United States in October, according to comScore, which ranks Internet traffic. By comparison, Google accounted for 58.5 percent, Yahoo for 22.9 percent and Microsoft for 9.7 percent.'" We first discussed this project back in July.

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  1. results are more important by syrinx · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I can't find what I'm looking for, I don't care if nobody knows about it.

    Heck, I can put up a search engine that I guarantee will not record anything you search for. Also, every result will be the "badger badger mushroom" song.

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    1. Re:results are more important by ByOhTek · · Score: 3, Funny

      And it will still produce better results than Ask, with one query that actually gets useful results!

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  2. What we really need... by RandoX · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...is a service that wipes my information out of Google. Get rid of my Tijuana pictures from Google Image Search.

    1. Re:What we really need... by RandoX · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is that you, mom?

  3. Re:Privacy Invasion Repeller for Sale! by Shados · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thats probably patented already. Sorry buddy.

  4. Of course privacy sells! by SleepyHappyDoc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Chances are, your privacy is being sold right now.

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