Ask.com Promotes Privacy With The “AskEraser”
This post was published 2 years 2 months 1 day ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.To those who are worried that their Google searches will haunt them, Ask.com has launched a tool that will actually anonymize search data.
Ask.com and other major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft typically keep track of search terms typed by users and link them to a computer’s Internet address, and sometimes to the user. However, when AskEraser is turned on, Ask.com discards all that information, the company said.
Ask, a unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp based in Oakland, hopes that the privacy protection will differentiate it from more prominent search engines like Google. The service will be conspicuously displayed on Ask.com’s main search page, as well as on the pages of the company’s specialized services for finding videos, images, news and blogs. Unlike typical online privacy controls that can be difficult for average users to find or modify, people will be able to turn AskEraser on or off with a single click.
The proof will be in the pudding – I would like to see the program audited to see how “private” your private data will be.
I agree about the audit, as “saying” they’re going to discard your data is quite a bit different from actually “doing”, but I think it’s an interesting feature none the less.
At least Ask finally has something unique to draw in users!