Microsoft reduces search data retention to six months
InformationWeek | at | by Mike
In response to the call by a European Union policy group for a common standard for the anonymization of search data, Microsoft on Monday proposed a six month search data retention period as an industry standard.
That's three months less than the search data retention period observed by Google, which adopted a nine-month period in September, half of what it was before that. Yahoo has a 13-month search data retention period.