Tag: SEARCH HISTORY

In response to new European Union regulations, Microsoft has reduced the amount of time Bing will associate your IP address with your search history. Up until now, Bing saved your searches, along with your full IP address, for 18 months. That's now been cut down to 6 months. Under the new plan, Microsoft will also stop storing your cross-session search cookies at 18 months, meaning they won't ...

For a while now, Google has been using the search histories of its logged-in users to deliver better results through its Personalized Search feature. This convenient - or creepy, depending on your perspective - service is now available even to logged-out users. If you're not logged in, though, where does Google save your search history? In an anonymous cookie, it turns out, with a Twinkie-esque ...

Well, now that it looks like StumbleUpon is worth something (possibly $40-45 million somethings), it should come as no surprise that Google wants in on the action. That said, it's probably sheer coincidence that Google launched a recommendations button for Google Toolbar on the same day that news breaks that eBay is positioned to purchase StumbleUpon. While both Google and StumbleUpon provide you ...

TrackMeNot is a Firefox extension designed by two NYU computer science researchers to run in the background and periodically send search requests to popular search engines and portals like AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN. Why would you want to do that? A couple of reasons. First, just for the fun of screwing with their heads. More importantly, though, when the companies release their search records ...