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[Nvyseal]

images/news/google.jpg"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines -- including Google -- do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities."

That was Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, telling you exactly what he thinks about your privacy. There is no ambiguity, no "out of context" here. Watch the video.

And here's how you can easily switch Firefox's search from Google to Bing. (Yes, Bing does have a better privacy policy than Google.)

Read on

[m.oreilly]

thanks for that. i have to laugh at (and am befuddled by) the image google are trying to cultivate for themselves vs the reality of their practices. ill give bing a try.

[brewin]

https://ssl.scroogle.org/

[m.oreilly]

brewin, on Dec 11 2009, 09:56 AM, said:

https://ssl.scroogle.org/

[VROSA]

Inspite of the bad pratices of Google many people think that it's still reasonable to use it to get better results.

This is a site where you can compare Bing and Google in real time.

http://www.bing-vs-google.com

I noticed that Google provides more results than Bing, but many of them are duplicates or have a weak correlation.

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Well, in some cases I have to confess that Bing disappoints me, especially when I search with many keywords, but it's still worthy !

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Hey, a "Let's Bing" smilie would be cool, wouldn't it ?

[m.oreilly]

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Hey, a "Let's Bing" smilie would be cool, wouldn't it ?

hehe, i have an idea...

[m.oreilly]