How cool is Bing?

<p>I have started reducing the # of tech sites I read because I am tired of the pointless comments about large respectable companies like Google and MS "slurping data" with implied malicious intent. Frankly I'd be honored if one of these companies could afford to pay personal attention to me and&nbsp;my data for some reason.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>What these companies do is sell anonymous statistics on web usage for 100s of millions or even Billions of customers. That is what is involved with "selling <em>your</em> data". You can frame that useless phrase any way you want if you want to be critical of a company you dislike; typically this is either Google or MS.&nbsp;In the English language, the terms you/your make no distinction between singular and plural.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If anything what you would worry about is accidental hackings or release of&nbsp;data resulting in identity theft (Equifax anyone?). Companies like MS and Google know that one mistake, and they are toast in the cloud services/search markets.&nbsp;While these are large "big brother" corporations, in this case this is exactly&nbsp;who you want to trust in the cloud.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>DuckDuckGo – who the heck are they, for example? Companies like that are the ones who are more likely to do questionable things behind the scenes as they are more desperate to make any money they can. Nothing personal about them but i'm using that as an example.&nbsp;So don't get mad at me if you are a fan of them, that's just a smaller company that comes to mind with less&nbsp;to lose and less scrutinizing going on.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>