Sep Kamvar Discusses Personalization
My latest interview is with Google’s Sep Kamvar. We talked about the personalization algorithms currently in use by Google in detail. Sep spells out in detail for us: The two signals that we use right now are the search history and the location. We constantly experiment with other signals, but the two signals that have [...]
AskEraser Elevates Privacy Standard For Search
Ask.com launched its AskEraser service across all of the search engine’s products, where people can opt to erase their search history with a single mouse click. If the usual 18-month limit to Ask.com‘s search data retention seems too long, searchers can slice that down to a few hours. The AskEraser service announced in July debuted [...]
Ask Adds AskEraser To Maintain User Privacy, Microsoft Joins Them To Evolve Privacy Procedures
Want to make sure your search history is not being recorded? Ask.com has developed AskEraser a tool that will allow you to wipe your search history and will be launching it in the near future, according to their press release. “Searchers will have easy access to AskEraser and can change their privacy preference at any [...]
Ask Readies AskEraser Privacy Controls
Ask.com will take its research with privacy advocates at the Center for Democracy & Technology into a new product for their search engine.The AskEraser product offers a straightforward way of keeping one’s search history from being retained by Ask. AskEraser will arrive in the wake of a number of privacy-related events related to search, such [...]
FTC Looking at Google-DoubleClick Deal?
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google’s planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, according to the New York Times. The outcry of privacy experts and competitors made an investigation all but inevitable, according to the report. Because the FTC is handling the investigation instead of the Justice Department, which [...]
Google’s Persistence Of Memory
There is a reason why Google keeps 18-24 months of search information before anonymizing it – three reasons, actually – and the company discussed them through the Official Google blog.The mechanisms behind Google’s operations seem surreal to people who have been on the Web since Tim Berners-Lee turned it loose over a decade ago. A [...]
Google Has Web History On Its Side
A new feature from Google goes beyond the search history it can retain for people; their Web History option would keep track of every page a person visits. Probably everyone has run into a moment where they know they saw something on a web page that could answer a question right now, but they can’t [...]
Google Gets Too Personal?
Are personalized search results good or bad – or both? With the recent upgrades for Google account holders, a lot of people have begun to reconsider this question; Jim Hedger and Philipp Lenssen were among those who applied their minds to the issue. In case you didn’t hear about Google’s advances personalized search, you can [...]
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