Search Engines Jockey For Position On Privacy
Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, July 23, 2007
Hot on the heels of Ask.com’s announcement on privacy:
(Source) Microsoft will delete data after 18 months and Yahoo after 13 months. In addition, Microsoft and Ask have issued statements urging the search engine industry to adopt a single standard for data retention.
Of course, Bloomberg was the first to break the news.
The interesting part about this story is that MSN and Ask are calling for an industry-wide standard. I don’t think that is necessary. What would it be? MSN matched Google’s policy, which is the least desirable among privacy advocates, especially in Europe. Ask has the best policy, but I don’t think the other search engines would succumb to Ask.com’s policy without a good fight.
Google beat them all to the punch, but that doesn’t mean Google will win the fight. I think it depends on which side of the big pond you’re on. They don’t like Google too much in the EU.
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