Summary: Abusive monopolist and leaker of personal information Microsoft hopes that the public will move off Google and over to Microsoft for 'privacy'

My favourite search engine, Scroogle, was shut down some months ago, leaving me to use StartPage. Microsoft now misuses the word "scroogle" in attempting to daemonise Google. Here is how IDG puts it and here is a decent response to Microsoft's hypocritical smear:

Microsoft often attack its competitors through smear campaign whether it's OpenOffice or Google. The Windows 8 maker is desperate to show how bad their competitors are through every channel possible. Right now Microsoft's arch rival is Google.

The company ran the Gmail man campaign trying to tell users that Google looks at your mails (as if Microsoft doesn't look inside Hotmail). There is no Gmail 'man' reading your emails, it's all automated. The fact is Microsoft also scans your emails.

And now Microsoft tries to tell us about privacy concerns in Google search. Never mind if Microsoft spies on Windows and Skype users, eh? All that in addition to search and E-mail spying...

For private search, use StartPage, not DDG (DuckDuckGo), which uses Microsoft for results and uses Microsoft talking points against Google. It last did the latter days ago (direct link intentionally not included). ⬆