Microsoft will follow Yahoo’s privacy practices for search data, which demand that data such as IP addresses be purged after 90 days, after the two companies close their search and advertising deal in which Bing will be used to power search on Yahoo’s sites. Those who use Bing directly, as opposed to through Yahoo, can expect to have their search-query data purged after six months under a newly announced policy.
– Microsoft recently announced that it would delete the stored IP addresses of
Bing users after six months, but that data may be purged even sooner for those
who use Bing though Yahoo’s sites once Microsoft and Yahoo close their search
and advertising deal sometime in 2010.
In a Jan. 18 post on t…