Ask.com and Privacy

Posted on December 11, 2007 by briansmithmccallum

Ask.com shows its concern for searchers’ privacy by debuting AskEraser. If users turn on AskEraser, their queries will be deleted from Ask.com’s servers.

Expunged data includes search/text strings, Session IDs, and IP addresses.

A reminder that Ask.com usually ranks @ #4 in popularity . . . behing Google, Yahoo!, and LiveSearch.

But see this opinion piece: How Ask.com Could Overtake Google.

About briansmithmccallum

Brian Smith McCallum, information and knowledge seeker, treads water and still attempts to throw you a lifepreserver in the information maelstrom, highlighting developments in the arena of searching and finding on the Web. He writes for CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research.
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