Recently AOL released 20 million web search queries, over a period of three months, from 650, 000 AOL search engine users.最近，美国在线发表20000000网站搜索查询，超过3个月内，从650 ， 000 AOL搜索引擎的用户。 The data anonymizes user identity by assigning them numerical id.数据anonymizes用户身份，由指派给它们的数值编号。 However that is not much security as users can be不过这是没有太大的安全用户可以 easily identified容易辨识 . 。 With such leaks it is easy to find out what you are searching in the privacy of your own home.与这种泄露，这是可以很容易地找出你所搜索的隐私，您自己的主页。

What guarantees such leaks won’t happen again?有什么保证，这种泄漏会不会再次发生呢？ If you are a Firefox user, now you can protect yourself from invasion of privacy by search engines.如果你是一个Firefox用户，现在你可以保护自己免受侵犯私隐的搜索引擎。 Here is a simple 1-minute guide with illustrations.这里是一个简单的1分钟，引导与插图。

First we need to understand how search engines keep track of an user.首先我们要明白如何搜索引擎跟踪用户。 They save some data in your hard-disk which is popularly known as cookie.他们保存的一些数据，在您的硬盘，这是通称的Cookie 。 This data helps them track you even if you use anonymizing services or proxies.这一数据，帮助他们跟踪你，甚至如果您使用的匿名服务或代理。 Now we will see how we can prevent the search engines from setting cookies on your system.现在我们将看到我们如何能防止搜索引擎从设置的Cookie在您的系统上。 Without cookies their tracking system cannot effectively track you.而不使用Cookie他们的追踪系统，不能进行有效的跟踪你。

Steps: 步骤：
1. 1 。 Open Tools menu and click on Options.打开工具菜单上，然后按一下选项。

拦阻cookie来自搜索引擎的一

2. 2 。 Select Privacy, click on Cookies tab and then click on Exceptions button.选择隐私，点击Cookies标签，然后按一下按钮例外。

拒绝所有Cookie ，从搜索引擎2

3. 3 。 Add the address of all search engines you use.添加的地址所有的搜索引擎使用。 For example for Google it is www.google.com or country specific search engine like www.google.co.in.例如为Google ，这是www.google.com或特定国家的搜索引擎一样， www.google.co.in 。 To find out simply go to www.google.com and it will automatically redirect you to country specific site, if appropriate.找出简单地转到www.google.com和它会自动将您重定向到特定国家的网站，如果适当的。 For other search engines you use enter their addresses too.对于其他搜索引擎您使用的进入他们的地址。 For example for MSN it is search.msn.com例如对于MSN ，这是search.msn.com

拒绝所有Cookie ，从搜索引擎3

The whole procedure should not take you more than a minute and you are done.整个程序不应该带你更超过一分钟，你这样做。

Note: For additional security now you can use any web based proxies.注意：对于额外的安全性，现在您可以使用任何基于Web的代理人。 They will still track your queries but they cannot associate them with a single entity / individual.他们仍然会追踪您的疑问，但他们不能准他们与一个单一的实体/个人。