Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Microsoft Cuts IP Address Storage to 6 Months

Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it would shorten the time it stores Internet users' addresses from Web search queries from 18 months to six months following a request from a European Union data privacy panel.
It said the change would make its Bing search a better choice for privacy-conscious users than the world's leading search engine Google Inc., because Microsoft will delete the entire Internet Protocol address from search queries — the string of numbers that shows a computer's लोकेशन

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9601993

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