Search engine privacy better results to that specific user and provide the user with a better searching experience. However, search engines can also abuse and compromise the privacy of the user's data by selling it to advertisers in order to gain profits. Users must decide what is more important to their search engine experience: relevance and speed of results or their privacy. The legal framework for protecting user privacy is not very solid. A few of the most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Baidu, but many other search engines that are focused on privacy have cropped up recently, such as
Microsoft Academic Microsoft Academic Microsoft Academic is a free public web search engine for academic publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research. Re-launched in 2016, the tool features an entirely new data structure and search engine using semantic search technologies. It currently indexes over 375 million entities, 170 million of which are academic papers. The Academic Knowledge API offers information retrieval from the underlying database using REST endpoints for advanced research purposes. The service replaces the earlier Microsoft research project, Microsoft Academic Search, which ended development in 2012. Preliminary reviews by bibliometricians suggest the new Microsoft Academic Search is a competitor to