Knowing the type of information someone searches for on the internet will tell you WAY more about them than the URLs they TYPE. To access specific sites, many p

Knowing the type of information someone searches for on the internet will tell you WAY more about them than the URLs they TYPE. To access specific sites, many people use bookmarks\links anyway. Microsoft's argument is akin to saying: Beware of using the new electrical mixer! It includes the option to use electricity, and electricity can cause electrocution. Use our hand operated mixer instead, it does not have that risk. For this article to bee considered to have any substance, Microsoft would need to claim 'This specific electrical mixer causes electrocution' aka 'Google circumvents it's option to disable submitting usage statistics by exploiting the auto-complete feature to store a copy of your browsing history'. They are not making that claim.