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The problem with Microsoft's accusation is that IE8 does the exact same thing, just not when you type in the address bar. You have to type in the search bar in IE8 for every stroke to get sent to Bing.

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Not sure what the downvote is for. From the article:

"The same behavior occurs in IE8, but only in the search bar. LePage is only correct in his assertion that IE8 does not send information to anyone when the user types into the address bar."

Well, when you put it in the search bar, your intention is to send the information to the search provider, after all, that's the whole point of the search box. However, with Chrome, as the two boxes are merged, the autocomplete function sends every keystroke to the search provider even when you wanted to go to a website directly, information that the search provider doesn't need at all and that is maybe private.

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