Google Keeps What Ask.com Erases

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 13, 2007 @10:10AM from the murky-waterse dept.

Stony Stevenson passed us an ITNews article on the AskEraser service we discussed the other day. The Ask.com service is intended to obscure a user's search data - but does it really go away? "AskEraser may remove user search query data from Ask.com's servers, but deleted data may live on, in part at least, on Google's servers. That's because Google delivers the bulk of the ads on Ask.com, based on information provided by Ask ... It may well use the information for other purposes, such as measuring the responsiveness of its systems. However, Leeds said he could not disclose the specifics of the contractual relationship between Ask and Google."

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Ask me why by zgregoryg · 2007-12-13 10:32 · Score: 1, Funny

I feel all Googley inside using a private proxy for all my web traffic...
Google: DUNT BE TEH EVIL!!!!111 by Anonymous Coward · 2007-12-13 10:34 · Score: 1, Funny

ZOMG, u meen teh Goog3l is staring teh too much nfo an viol8ing pplz privassy? TEH OMG, I THOT TEH GOOGEL WAS TEH NOT BE TEH EVIL?!?!?!

TEH GOOGEL HATES TEH MIKKKR0$$$l0th... hows cud tey be teh evilz? It dunt make teh cents?!!
Re:Google Search History by El_Muerte_TDS · 2007-12-13 10:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Don't panic! Google will only remain logging when you are paranoid.