The Dallas Morning News reports today that the search engine Ask.com is allowing people to delete their search history at that site. The new policy, called SearchEraser is due to debut today.
The article points out that Google and Microsoft retain search histories for 18 months, and AOL and Yahoo retain them for 13 months.
The only drawback to this new policy is that because Ask relies on Google to deliver many of the text-based ad links on its pages, some information about search requests and clicks will still end up on Google’s computers even when AskEraser is turned on.
