Microsoft’s Bing blog announced they will reduce the time frame they store search data, from 18 months to only 6 months. This is in response to the European Union’s request that search companies reduce the time they store such data. Microsoft Bing is the first major search engine to comply with those demands.
Bing said:
Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land has additional history and insight into this change.
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