Search engine Ask.com now has a link labeled "AskEraser" at the top right of their US homepage. If you turn on this feature, according to Ask, "your search activity will be deleted from Ask.com servers." Ask defines your search history as "your IP address, User ID and Session ID cookies, as well as the complete text of your search query." If AskEraser is disabled on the other hand, that search history will live on Ask"s servers for 18 months, somewhat similar to how Google say they treat it by default.
AskEraser doesn"t really work when accessed from Germany though. It"s a classic catch-22: I can only use AskEraser on ...
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