Mozilla Exec Urges Switch From Google To Bing

Posted by timothy on Friday December 11, 2009 @01:08AM from the what-about-flimpy-and-torgo? dept.

Andorin writes "Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, has published a brief blog post in which he recommends that Firefox users move from using Google as their main search engine to Bing, citing privacy issues. Disregarding the existence of alternative search engines such as Ask and Yahoo, Dotzler asserts that Bing's privacy policy is better than Google's. Dotzler explains the recommendation with a quote from Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google: 'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines — including Google — do retain this information for some time...' Ars Technica also covers the story."

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Resign! by openfrog · 2009-12-11 02:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What about a well thought review of search engines privacy policies?
As it stands for me, with the feeble justification of a taken-out-of-context quote (we have already discussed this quote on Slashdot), the credibility of the Mozilla Foundation just went down a notch, and will not go up again until this Asa Dotzler has resigned.
Nothing less. No apologies, no further explanation.
Resign.