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A comment on Google ToS rated: “keeps your searches and logs for an undefined period of time”.

Re:Google ToS rated: “keeps your searches and logs for an un... by recoiledsnake on Saturday May 04, 2013 @09:46PM (#5657100)
Looks like Bing is better in this aspect.

From its policy:

We store search terms (and the cookie IDs associated with search terms) separately from any account information that directly identifies the user, such as name, e-mail address, or phone numbers. We have technological safeguards in place designed to prevent the unauthorized correlation of this data and we remove the entirety of the IP address after 6 months, cookies and other cross session identifiers, after 18 months.

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Re:Google ToS rated: “keeps your searches and logs for an un... by magicalist on Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:00PM (#5657289)
OTOH: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/how-microsoft-and...
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Re:Google ToS rated: “keeps your searches and logs for an un... by gus_massa on Sunday May 05, 2013 @09:24AM (#5658275)
It's better, but the problem is that unless they are very smart filtering the search strings, they can be de deanonymized. For example see the AOL case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
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