Ask.com launched its AskEraser service across all of the search engine's products, where people can opt to erase their search history with a single mouse click.
Ask.com's search data retention seems too long, searchers can slice that down to a few hours. The Resource Shelf noted that for people who have not opted to use AskEraser, Ask.com will "completely disassociate search history from a user’s IP address or cookie information after 18 months."
We expect the other major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft won't follow AskEraser's example. The data mining search sites perform on user activity represents tremendous value to the engines; they won't give up such a resource that easily.
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