This is slightly old news – a couple days old – but the idea is great and needs as much support as possible so I’m blogging about it. There is a new initiative aimed at protecting search engine users privacy that is very promicing and it’s called #Privacy:
What Is #Privacy:
“Pound Privacy” is a campaign to create the first standard for search engine query privacy. The implementation is fairly straightforward: If you append the phrase “#privacy” at the end of a query on any search engine or site search, your query should not be tracked by IP or cookie, and should not be made public in keyword tools. It is that simple.
The web site is an open letter to the “big four” – Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask – with an offer to implement the technique to searches performed by their users. Let’s see what their reaction will be but if this does get implemented I believe we will all benefit from it. Support it and spread the word!
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