Taking steps to further improve our privacy practices
3/14/2007 03:00:00 PM
Posted by Peter Fleischer, Privacy Counsel-Europe, and Nicole Wong, Deputy
General Counsel
When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details. Previously, we kept this data for as long as it was useful. Today we're pleased to report a change in our privacy policy: Unless we're legally required to retain log data for longer, we will anonymize our server logs after a limited period of time. When we implement this policy change in the coming months, we will continue to keep server log data (so that we can improve Google's services and protect them from security and other abuses)—but will make this data much more anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified with individual users, after 18-24 months.
ixQuick.com announced strict privacy policies last year. They state in their FAQs that "...user related personal data however are deleted from the logfiles within a maximum of 48 hours, often sooner."
It would be interesting to compare the policies for all major search engines.
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