Microsoft, Ask.com Pressure Google On Privacy

[HardOCP News]

Microsoft and Ask.com are putting pressure on Google to offer anonymous searching and are now calling on the search and online advertising industry to develop a common set of privacy practices.

By year’s end, Microsoft will give users a way to search anonymously on its Microsoft Windows Live Web sites, and it will also implement a new data retention policy that after 18 months will scrub all search query data of any information that could be used to identify the searcher