What Google knows about you
Google Search has bigger privacy issues. IP Addresses are anonymized after 9 months, but your search history is stored <i>forever</i> in anonymized form. If you have ever searched for yourself on Google, or for a unique set of information that can identify you as the origin of your searches, then you have to trust Google's security team and future lawmakers to keep your information private.<p>Yes, most people don't care, and I'm not any better. I don't have anything incriminating or too embarrassing in my search history, so I use Google and grit my teeth whenever privacy comes up. I tried DuckDuckGo for a week, but I eventually fell back to Google.<p>Sources and relevant links:<p><a href="http://www.google.com/privacy/faq.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/privacy/faq.html</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal</a>