Bing (search engine) manner in which search engines "spider" Internet resources to add them to their database, as well as cloud computing. On July 31, 2009, The Laptop Company, Inc. stated in a press release that it would challenge Bing's trademark application, alleging that Bing may cause confusion in the marketplace as Bing and their product BongoBing both do online product search. Software company TeraByte Unlimited, which has a product called BootIt Next Generation (abbreviated to BING), also contended the trademark application on similar grounds, as did a Missouri-based design company called Bing! Information Design. Microsoft contended that claims challenging its trademark were
Search engine privacy DuckDuckGo. There have been several well publicized breaches of search engine user privacy that occurred with companies like AOL and Yahoo. For individuals interested in preserving their privacy from search engines, there are many routes available to them, such as using an anonymity software like Tor that attempts to separate the user's location and information from their search. Search engines generally have privacy policies in order to inform users about what data of theirs they may be collecting and what purposes it may be used for. While these policies may be an attempt at transparency by search engines, many people