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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. Simple solution: TOR by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As long as you're only searching the web and not clicking on the results, nobody will find out what YOU searched for if you used Onion routing like TOR.

    Now the hard stuff is making TOR work ONLY for Google and search sites.

    1. Re:Simple solution: TOR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Tor is not enough for multiple reasons. I have been working on a much detailed solution that uses Tor but takes care of the issues on other levels too. It also addresses ONLY Google searches, so you can do your other Web browsing Tor-free.