Since Google has decided to downplay the importance of user privacy, Mozilla it seems has decided to part its ways from the internet search behemoth, as the makers of the famous Firefox browser is now directing its users to an add on link that changes their preferred search engine to Microsoft Bing, as against Google, which has been the longest serving search engine on the browser.

In an interview with CNBC, Google CEO, Eric Schmidt had said,

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. “If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.”

The statement clearly showed the changing attitude of Google towards the user privacy that has been a touchy subject for a very long time.

Mozilla’s director of community development, Asa Dotzler was quick to criticize Google for its increasing neglect towards user privacy and stated that, the interview of Mr. Schmidt hasn’t left anything out of context and further emphasized that, Bing carriers a much more stringent user privacy policy than Google. The iony of the situation being, that Mozilla is bound by a deal with Google, under which, Google will be provided as the default search engine for the Firefox browser and in turn Mozilla earns handsome revenue with the current arrangement.

Via Computer World.