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
Chomp (search engine) app. Chomp acquired over 300,000 users in the first eight weeks after its launch. Chomp received seed funding of $565,000 in November 2009. By March 2010 it received a series A round of funding, of $2 Million. Investors included BlueRun Ventures, Ron Conway, Brian Pokorny, and David Lee. At this time, Chomp made further improvements to its search engine by enhancing its search functionality. By February 2011 Chomp brought its search to the Android platform and released its Android app. This provided an improved experience from the existing search capabilities found in the Android market. By May 2011, the number