Posted on 04/20/2011 4:30:07 AM PDT by Daffynition
WASHINGTON – Yahoo plans to extend the amount of time it retains records on what its users search for online, less than two and a half years after breaking from the other big Internet search engines and promising to delete such data promptly.
The new policy brings the company in line with Google Inc., which dominates the industry and failed to follow Yahoo Inc.'s lead when it shortened the amount of time that it keeps online search records to 90 days in most cases.
Beginning this summer, after notifying customers, Yahoo will join Google in keeping search logs for 18 months.
Yahoo said it will consider keeping other types of information about its users for longer durations, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Every time I search “dumb ass”it comes up Obama.
Glad I don’t use Google OR Yahoo.
Thanks for that link!
Does anyone know of a list of alternative search engines that don’t track you?
That should have had a warning attached to it LOLOLOL....
Mt Dew all over my new monitor and keyboard ~ Now that was hilarious.
Ditto on the Ixquick. You can also do private searches using Ixquick. :~)
Records the new gold.
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