On: Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"

[tedunangst]

How would a search engine that doesn't look at your search string work?

[rabidgnat → tedunangst]

Cuil answered that question very definitively :D

[diego → tedunangst]

Of course it needs your query string, but it could run your search and then forget about it. Arguably Google was better when it didn't take your history into account when calculating the results.

[tyler → diego]

You certainly could argue that, however, if it were true in most cases Google, a highly data-driven company, would be still be working that way.

[blinks → diego]

[citation needed]