Search engines race to update privacy policies

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Companies propose industrywide privacy solution, announce commitment to develop common set of privacy practices that will enhance protections and provide more control for consumers. Building on their respective efforts to protect consumer privacy, industry leaders Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Ask.com, a wholly owned business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), today joined together in the commitment to call on the industry to develop a common set of global privacy practices for data collection, use and protection related to searching and online advertisin