Last December Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted regarding their new privacy policy which, consequently, doesn’t really include much privacy at all. Schmidt was quoted saying “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.” For some time? Try 180 days. Scary stuff, to say the least. Even Mozilla’s Director of Community Development was encouraging users to switch to Bing. And yes, Bing’s privacy policy is better than Google’s at this point. That got me thinking, why not Bing?
Believe it or not Microsoft has hit a huge home run with its new search engine “Bing!”. I have to say I was pretty skeptical at first about trying it, I mean after all I can’t remember a time where those rainbow o’s in Goooogle weren’t the first thing to greet me when I power up my ThinkPad. Hell, they’re even sort of, um well, comforting in a weird way. Well, I guess it’s not that weird when you consider how much time the average American teen spends on the internet a week: 30, count them 3-0, hours. Anyways, after years of letting Google’s search engine dominate my internet experience I thought I’d give Bing a try. So far, I really like it. Don’t worry though Google, I haven’t abandoned you yet, but there are a few new tricks Bing’s search engine could teach you. Sergey and Larry, you listening? need more? read on…
