Microsoft and Ask.com said Monday they are joining together to encourage the creation of a set of privacy principles for collecting data about people through online advertising and search programs. Also Monday, Sunnyvale search giant Yahoo confirmed it will get rid of the personal information from search queries within 13 months. Read more here..
Sounds like they are just trying to get some support of there sites by putting it off for something to do a year from now. I do like to see that they are taking the step in the right direction though.