Search engine scraping public known incident of a search engine being scraped happened in 2011 when Microsoft was caught scraping unknown keywords from Google for their own, rather new Bing service. () But even this incident did not result in a court case. One possible reason might be that search engines like Google are getting almost all their data by scraping millions of public reachable websites, also without reading and accepting those terms. A legal case won by Google against Microsoft would possibly put their whole business as risk. Search engine scraping Search engine scraping is the process of harvesting URLs, descriptions, or
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