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Ask.com becomes 1st major search engine to promise users it won’t store data
Searching News Source: http://www.thestate.com
Story Found By: chriswinfield 1773 Days ago
Category: Searching
"The number of people this is important to is small," said Doug Leeds, Ask’s vice president of product management. "But to these people, it’s very important." And a lot of those people are here on Sphinn :)
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from dannysullivan 1773 Days ago #
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We’ve also got a detailed look at it on Search Engine Land: http://searchengineland.com/070719-173648.php

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from Jonah 1770 Days ago #
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Great news for people who are concerned about privacy. To keep ISP’s and other third parties from capturing the data, they should allow https access, which would also allow them to know someone didn’t want their searches logged and eliminate the need for a cookie. They might also consider allowing Russ Jones suggestion for #privacy or some other key in the query to indicate that the user didn’t want the search logged. Of course, if the user clicks on a PPC ad, they need a mechanism to prevent click fraud.

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from charissa 1770 Days ago #
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And for a bit more information on this topic, TechCrunch has a bit on Ask and other engine’s response to privacy concerns. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/22/privacy-is-the-new-black/

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from weboptimist 1769 Days ago #
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Yep, I’m one of those concerned about Google’s apparent lack of concern about privacy. Maybe Google will eventually support some way to set privacy settings, too. We can only hope... ;-)

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