December 14, 2009

- Switch from Google to Bing

Firefox entrepreneur concerned about the search giant's views on privacy.

Mozilla's vice president for development of the community, Asa Dotzler, one of the founders of the Firefox browser now encourages users to switch search engine. From Google to Microsoft's Bing.

It is very remarkable. Not only is Microsoft Mozilla's biggest competitor. Nonprofit organization obtains 91 percent of its revenue through an agreement to include Google in the search box in Firefox.
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To renounce Google can almost be compared to removing the branch business sits on.

The reason for the call to change due to statements that Google chief Eric Schmidt came in an interview with CNBC last Sunday.

Schmidt said that those who cares about the search giant's extensive storage of personal data, must have something to hide.

Dotzler said Thursday by quoting parts of the interview on his personal blog.

- Do you have anything online that you do not want others to know, so you might not have done it to begin with. If you really want to be protected against this, the fact that the search engines - including Google - actually stores this information over time, "says Google top.

The reason that the storage of personal information is important, continued Schmidt, is that they must follow the rules as laid down by the U.S. Patriot Act-legislation.

Patriot Act is the controversial law that gives the U.S. government broad powers to monitor and monitoring electronic communications.

Moreover, "says Eric Schmidt that it is possible that all such information may be submitted to the authorities.

Mozilla boss links to a recording of the interview and commenting dryly that the statements are not to be misunderstood:

- There is no ambiguity, this is not taken out of their context.

The other short end his post with the recipe on how to change the search engine from Google to Bing in Firefox, and emphasizes that the latter has better privacy terms than Google.

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