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Privacy-friendly Search Engines
Posted on Jun 30, 2008 by Tom Fragala
Most of the leading search engines like Google, MSN, and Yahoo keep your search data for a long time; Google 18 months and Yahoo 13 months. There is an alternative for the privacy-conscious called Ixquick, which is based in Holland. It actually pulls search results from the other major search engines, but deletes search queries after just 48 hours. Ask.com (formerly AskJeeves) has a privacy feature called AskEraser which will deleted your search activity from their system on demand.
Info from Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
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Keith lauren on Jun 30, 2008
Unfortunately our ISPs are capturing all of the data anyway so in the end it doesn't really matter what we do :|
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Good point Keith.
--Tom F
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