What on Earth? My comment takes issue with your claim that Bing is “unlike Google.” Google’s privacy policy explicitly allows them to use queries for advertising, not “unlike Bing.” Why are you trying to paint Microsoft as exceptional here?
> We use the information we collect from all of our services to provide, maintain, protect and improve them, to develop new ones, and to protect Google and our users. We also use this information to offer you tailored content – like giving you more relevant search results and ads.
>Google’s privacy policy explicitly allows them to use queries for advertising
So does Bing.
Finally, as described in the Display of Advertising section of this document, we may use search query data for the purpose of personalizing the ads we display to you as you use our services or those of our advertising partners.
Microsoft operates data centers in China that are run by Chinese state run companies that allow the Chinese government to examine any user data they want.
Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (Azure China 21Vianet) is a physically separated instance of cloud services located in mainland China, independently operated and transacted by Shanghai Blue Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. ("21Vianet"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Beijing 21Vianet Broadband Data Center Co., Ltd.
Sorry, I misinterpreted what you were saying. My intent was to imply that if you're going to wrangle Google into the Facebook clusterfuck then you better put the spotlight on other companies that have done more nefarious shit than Google.
> We use the information we collect from all of our services to provide, maintain, protect and improve them, to develop new ones, and to protect Google and our users. We also use this information to offer you tailored content – like giving you more relevant search results and ads.
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/#infouse