search logs
RSS search logsA world where your every moment is recorded is coming
News Or in a more sci-fi scenario, your logs of movies and books read, cross-referenced with your heart rate and blood pressure measurements, could help you decide what sorts of movie to watch. What file system should you... [21 Sep 2009]
MindTouch Case Study: Greenwood Technologies
White Paper As the small company grew rapidly, keeping sales sheets, customer service logs, and technical information up-to-date was critical to growth. With an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, it enabled every authorized user to... [23 Dec 2008]
User Behavior Oriented Web Spam Detection
White Paper With user behavior analyses into Web access logs, this paper proposes a spam page detection algorithm based on Bayes learning. Combating Web spam has become one of the top challenges for Web search engines. [14 Oct 2008]
Google slashes time to search anonymity by half
News The search giant has said it will now anonymise IP addresses on its server logs after nine months rather than the previous 18 months. Despite privacy concerns over the use of logs,... [09 Sep 2008]
Internet blacklisting tool unveiled
News DShield is a community-based system that collaborates firewall logs from contributors in order to analyse attack trends, and is used as the data-collection system behind the Sans Institute's Internet Storm Center. [28 Jul 2008]
White Paper: Google Desktop Search Analysis
White Paper The small 400 KB applet indexes Outlook and Outlook Express mail, Microsoft Office formats and AOL chat logs, as well as plain text and HTML files on your hard drive. Google has launched its local search... [14 Aug 2007]
Privacy screw tightened at Microsoft, Yahoo!
News The New York Times was able to discover the identity of at least one of the users, highlighting the risks associated with retaining search data logs. The major search engines are racing... [23 Jul 2007]
EU may push Google further on privacy
News However, Dix said that a bigger concern was the anonymisation of server log data, and that the only major search company to disclose its server log data-retention policy so far is Google, which anonymises server... [19 Jul 2007]
The Influence of Caption Features on Clickthrough Patterns in Web Search
White Paper In this paper the authors develop a methodology to use clickthrough logs from a commercial search engine to study user behavior when interacting with search result captions. Web... [19 Jul 2007]
Google gets a letter from EU
News The issue surrounds Google's policy of anonymising its server logs after 18 to 24 months. A European Commission advisory group has raised concerns about how Google uses and manages users' search data. [29 May 2007]
Geographical Statistics and Characteristics of P2P Query Strings
White Paper The paper applies this architecture to generate daily logs of search queries. This paper presents a large-scale measurement study of search terms in the modern Gnutella network. P2P... [23 May 2007]
Google has data-retention change of heart
News Currently, Google maintains the search data logs indefinitely. The policy change will apply to future web search data as well as archived logs and all copies of the data... [15 Mar 2007]
FBI chief bangs drum for ISP data retention
News And during private meetings with industry officials, FBI and Justice Department representatives have cited the desirability of also forcing search engines to keep logs. FBI director Robert Mueller has... [18 Oct 2006]
Fresh calls for ISP data retention laws
News Gonzales asked senators to adopt "data retention" legislation that would be likely to force internet providers to keep customer logs for at least a year or two. Those logs, often routinely discarded... [20 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.07.06
Round-Up Not until it's examined the web logs and amassed the proof that is. It's also a bit rich seeing as Google's specialty and focus is, well, search, and Microsoft's is, well it's anyone's guess these days. [21 Jul 2006]
