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That also explains the unusual damage to the windshield. It looks like a small mob took bats to it. I suspect if this rage was directed at teh goog it would have had much more damage. Nothing to see here. Human error followed by a very poor judgement call and some vigilante justice. I hope everyone turned out ok.
Agreed about "most people have little idea...". I wish more companies were more honest and open about these things instead of burying it in the fine print. I wonder what would happen if you enable "Suggested Sites" but then install IE 9+ (since it appears to support the DNT flag) and select "Do Not Track". The pessimist in me suspects it will just turn off tracking for all non-msft experiments.
In any case, I think you've convinced me that my decision to use a non-windows OS and a non-IE browser was the correct one.
Thanks for mentioning this...
To answer my own question: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/20...
Seems it is opt-in users.
Interesting. The privacy implications are disturbing if true. I'm neither an IE nor windows user but I suspect most users wouldn't opt-in if given that choice. Any refs to research/evidence about the topic would be appreciated.
How does msft have access to google algo click data?
This appears to be a direct ripoff of open shortcuts from yahoo search.