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RE: AOL: 'We Did Not Comply With All of the DOJ's Search Data Request
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:10:04 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Fergie wrote:
Had it not been for Google refusing the DoJ, we'd have never known that AOL "just" turned over a little bit.
Of course, its known they release some data for press releases. Although the largest search engines like AOL and Google tend to omit controversial topics from the press announcements. So we get a warped perception of how people are actually using search engines. http://hot.aol.com/2005/index.html http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html Academic researchers have used web query data from several search engines for over a decade. Librarians collect and study this type of data all the time. Librarians also have a long history of strongly protecting the raw data. On the oher hand, Google research tends to focus more on the technology than the human, as you can see from the papers on Google's corporate site. Google is noticably under-represented in research on information science (previously known as library science). Unfortunately, the US Department of Justice has a long history of abusing data, especially concerning some topics. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- AOL: 'We Did Not Comply With All of the DOJ's Search Data Request Fergie (Jan 20)
- Re: AOL: 'We Did Not Comply With All of the DOJ's Search DataRequest Mary Landesman (Jan 24)
- RE: AOL: 'We Did Not Comply With All of the DOJ's SearchDataRequest Larry Seltzer (Jan 24)
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- RE: AOL: 'We Did Not Comply With All of the DOJ's Search Data Request Fergie (Jan 20)
- RE: AOL: 'We Did Not Comply With All of the DOJ's Search Data Request Sean Donelan (Jan 22)
- Re: AOL: 'We Did Not Comply With All of the DOJ's Search DataRequest Mary Landesman (Jan 24)