Archive for the 'Perfect Search' Category
AoIR: Search 2.0: Web 2.0, Personal Information Flows, and the Drive for the Perfect Search Engine
Saturday, October 20th, 2007Following up on my Web 2.0 panel at 4S, I just returned from another quick trip to Canada — this time Vancouver — for the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, where I organized a similar panel titled “Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0: Surveillance, Discipline, Labor.” I again had the pleasure of presenting […]
With SmartAds, Yahoo Finally Joins Google…as a Threat to Privacy
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007In my dissertation I outline the quest for the “perfect search engine” – a search engine capable of indexing all available information and providing fast and relevant results. The perfect search engine will have to have “perfect reach” to deliver any type of online content from all online (and, increasingly, offline) sources, as well as […]
Scholarship on Privacy and Search Engines
Saturday, June 30th, 2007I recently had the pleasure of attending an excellent workshop on “privacy advocacy” hosted by the Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley. The goal was to get privacy advocates in the room with academics who work on privacy in order to encourage “cross-pollination” and - from my perspective - help illuminate the kind of […]
Google’s Peter Fleischer is Dangerously Misleading on Privacy and Personalized Search
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007I’m supposed to be on vacation this week, but felt compelled to blog about this…
There has been increased attention lately about Google’s data retention policies and the impact its drive towards personalization might have on user privacy. In response, one of Google’s chief privacy lawyers, Peter Fleisher, whose opinion I normally have high regard for, […]
Google Universal Search: Half of the Perfect Search Engine
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007In my dissertation I outline the quest for the “perfect search engine” – a search engine capable of indexing all available information and providing fast and relevant results. The perfect search engine will have to have “perfect reach” to deliver any type of online content from all online (and, increasingly, offline) sources, as well as […]
SEM on Search & Consumer Privacy
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Gord Hotchkiss, the president of a search engine marketing firm, writes what at first appears to be a thoughtful and reflective essay on how the rise of behavioral targeting within the search engine advertising market (his bread and butter):
The mechanisms are already in place for search engines to track your online behavior. Tool bars, mini […]
Web Search: Multi-
disciplinary Perspectives