[IP] more on Google's new feature creates another user privacy problem
Begin forwarded message:
From: Tim O'Reilly <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 14, 2005 12:20:49 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Google's new feature creates another user privacy problem
Dave,
I blogged Lauren Weinstein's posting (Google's new feature creates
another user privacy problem - http://www.interesting-people.org/
archives/interesting-people/200506/msg00190.html), and a reader named
Trenton Lipscomb wrote the following comment, which I think might be
of interest to the list:
First, Google does this for only the first result, not all of them.
So, it's not really "top search results" but "the first search
result".
Secondly, if you're relying on rows in your access log to determine
how many human beings look at your site or see an ad, you're
already broken. The <a href="http://iab.net/standards/
measurement.asp">IAB has standards</a> for counting ad impressions,
page views, etc.
You've got to follow these if you're selling ads in any volume.
(See http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/unintended_cons.html
for the blog posting and additional comments.)
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