Ask.com To Offer Anonymous Surfing

I am not necessarily the paranoid type, but Google’s hoarding of personal information has me seriously skeptical. So much in fact, that in the past week I’ve changed my default search engine in Firefox, as my way of sticking it to the big Goo’. Ask.com has been trying hard in the past year to play catch-up with the other search engines and has been doing an outstanding job. They recently revamped their entire website and now, according to Ars Technica, they will be offering a new anonymous surfing service called AskEraser.

The tool, called AskEraser, will ensure that users’ search records will not be retained by the company in any form for any period of time. Users will be able to set AskEraser settings in their privacy preferences, and the company says that the settings will be clearly displayed on results pages so that users will always be aware of the privacy status of their Ask.com searches.

Source: Ars Technica