[IP] more on Google's new feature creates another user privacy problem
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From: hugh-list <hugh-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 14, 2005 2:27:11 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Google's new feature creates another user
privacy problem
We are _delighted_ do get the hits in our log that indicate what
Google search querys for which our site is one of the top results.
Some of them are pretty non intuitive, and make us think hard about
who our potential audience is and improve our content. We have also
had searches for potential advertisers show up in our logs, and that
is a great tool for convincing them to buy ad space. Any web
publisher that sees this as a problem rather than an opportunity is
not thinking very hard.
As for the issue of incriminating material that a browser user never
actually saw or was even looking for showing in the browser cache or
server records, the sooner the legal system and potential jurors
understands that that sort of evidence means squat, the better. There
are a lot of scenarios where semi-random stuff ends up on a user's
computer through no fault of their own, but most of them are a lot
harder to explain or demonstrate than this one.
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