Will Privacy Sell?

DeeQ writes "Ask.com is betting that it will. The search engine is working on a service called AskEraser that will attempt to obscure the searches a user enters into the site. 'Some privacy experts doubt that concerns about privacy are significant enough to turn a feature like AskEraser into a major selling point for Ask.com. The search engine accounted for 4.7 percent of all searches conducted in the United States in October, according to comScore, which ranks Internet traffic. By comparison, Google accounted for 58.5 percent, Yahoo for 22.9 percent and Microsoft for 9.7 percent.'" We first discussed this project back in July.

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What we really need...

[RandoX]

...is a service that wipes my information out of Google. Get rid of my Tijuana pictures from Google Image Search.

Re:results are more important

[ByOhTek]

And it will still produce better results than Ask, with one query that actually gets useful results!

Re:Privacy Invasion Repeller for Sale!

[Shados]

Thats probably patented already. Sorry buddy.

Re:What we really need...

[RandoX]

Is that you, mom?

Of course privacy sells!

[SleepyHappyDoc]

Chances are, your privacy is being sold right now.