Indeed; after a time they required search history to be turned on in order for commuting traffic information to be supplied, which was not initially the case.

Indeed; after a time they required search history to be turned on in order for commuting traffic information to be supplied, which was not initially the case. At that point I turned it on but deleted* the search history each day, until such point as they changed the delete controls to be more of a nuisance. I now use DuckDuckGo and an iPhone instead. * Or so their site claims.