Ask.com to offer private searches - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 23rd Jul 2007, 08:38

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/07...ate_searches/1

Ask.com has announced plans to give its users the ability to surf with a degree of anonymity later this year.

RTT · 23rd Jul 2007, 09:05

All 4 of their users must be very happy

Bindibadgi · 23rd Jul 2007, 09:18

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Originally Posted by RTT

All 4 of their users must be very happy

Are they all paedophiles or terrorists? Or just want to search for gotse at work?

Amon · 23rd Jul 2007, 09:39

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Originally Posted by Bindibadgi

Are they all paedophiles or terrorists? Or just want to search for gotse at work?

I'm afraid the company gateway would have compensated for the attempted anonymity. Sorry, mate.

Bindibadgi · 23rd Jul 2007, 10:02

LOL fair enough :P Talking from experience (of seeing others)?

bloodcar · 23rd Jul 2007, 13:44

This has actually spurred Microsoft into announcing close to the same deal with their search data. They announced it late yesterday but I only caught a brief glimpse of it as I was heading to bed.

Here's the first link I just came upon when searching for it just now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/te...gg&exprod=digg

It might not be the biggest search engine out there, but they're at least garnering enough attention to press the other search companies to protect user privacy.

completemadness · 23rd Jul 2007, 15:57

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Originally Posted by RTT

All 4 of their users must be very happy

^^ - hopefully though the other biggies will follow suit, i don't like ask that much, in fact IMO i usually find Google is the only engine that actually returns the results you really want, MSN is terrible for that, and ask tries to do other funky things, but the actual search engine isn't good enough
I don't know how google do it, but usually for me, the result i want is in the first 3 results, and 90% of the time the first page

Ghys · 23rd Jul 2007, 16:58

I prefered this engine when it was called 'Teoma', heh

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bloodcar Mod Master Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mentor, OH Posts: 2,133	This has actually spurred Microsoft into announcing close to the same deal with their search data. They announced it late yesterday but I only caught a brief glimpse of it as I was heading to bed. Here's the first link I just came upon when searching for it just now. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/te...gg&exprod=digg It might not be the biggest search engine out there, but they're at least garnering enough attention to press the other search companies to protect user privacy. __________________ <+DougEdey> you getting PGR4 mitmit? <mitmit> not me, Geoff is probably wanking like a lepper at the thought of it though

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23rd Jul 2007, 09:05	#2
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