SSL search doesn't reduce the data that Google receives and logs when you search, or change the listing of the items in your web history. Google logs the same information about your search when you’re using SSL search as we do for unencrypted search.
On IPv4 connections, Baidu keeps logsuser’s IP address and geographic information but they are not yet doing this for IPv6 connections. If you don’t support connections over IPv6, you will be dropping traffic without even knowing it as it won’t...
In the NSTIC world, that data is all held in one or a few Identity Provider databases with all your online activities of ANY SITE that participates in the NSTIC online authentication system and maybe even outside of that (have you heard of the...
While Yahoo recently announced plans to join Google and Bing in retaining searchlogs for 18 months, Blekko has gone in the opposite direction, announcing that searches conducted on Blekko and other personal information such as IP addresses will...
Yahoo, which announced plans to anonymize searchlogs, page views, page clicks, ad views, and ad click data it collected after 90 days in 2008, is reversing course and plans to begin storing searchlogs for 18 months -- as well as potentially...
Yahoo, which announced plans to anonymize searchlogs, page views, page clicks, ad views, and ad click data it collected after 90 days in 2008, is reversing course and plans to begin storing searchlogs for 18 months -- as well as potentially...
A consumer logs into a website each time they visit. The company then has the ability to look at their web records and see when the last time this user logged in, and what advertising was involved. If a visitor to your site decides to purchase...
Now every time someone logs into your WordPress website to post a comment, using their Twitter account for authentication, 200 personal messages hidden inside their Twitter inbox are getting e-mailed to you.
It is also worth noting that if you are logged in to your Google account searches you make will still show up in your web history, as that data is compiled against Google's own webserver logs, rather than a cookie on your site.
The data includes searchlogs, page views, page clicks, ad views and ad clicks. In our world of customized online services, responsible use of data is critical to establishing and maintaining user trust," said Anne Toth, Yahoo!
And as John Paczkowski points out at AllThingsD, the link just happened to go up just after a judge ruled that Google has to hand over YouTube userlogs in a suit brought against it by Viacom. But since IP addresses and usernames aren't necessary...
Varian suggests readers "Watch our videos to see exactly what data we store in our logs. Varian explains that Web search algorithms are improved by the "wisdom of the crowds" drawn from the "logs of billions of previous search queries.
Harness your internal search engine logs to find those keywords that you may not be buying. You can cluster related content together that can be helpful for a user, as well as helpful for search engines.
By anonymizing our server logs after 18-24 months, we think we're striking the right balance between two goals: continuing to improve Google's services for you, while providing more transparency and certainty about our retention practices," writes...
What makes this revealing glimpse especially insightful is that this is not information you can get from your own logs. It provides a type of competitive intelligence that is user-oriented and delivers comparison data in a form ready for immediate...
The recommendation database is generated by performing the steps of: performing data mining using users search query logs, usersearch patterns, and user profile information to generate a plurality of recommendations relating to search query...
Researchers Yearn to Use AOL Logs, But They Hesitate from the New The ads will be "graphical ad placements as
well as automated text-based advertisements targeted to content, and over
time, aggregate user behavior on an anonymous basis.
Researchers Yearn to Use AOL Logs, But They Hesitate from the New York Times
covers this in more detail, about how the existing data sets out there are
nearly 10 years old. Most interesting is the end of the story, looking at if there's a way to...
PDF) asks for the FTC to:
order AOL to refrain from collecting or storing logs of its users' search
activity except where necessary incident to the rendition of AOL's services or
the protection of AOL rights and property, and to refrain in any...