more on Google's new feature creates another user privacy problem

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Tim O'Reilly <tim () oreilly com>
Date: June 14, 2005 12:20:49 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: Google's new feature creates another user privacy problem


Dave,

I blogged Lauren Weinstein's posting (Google's new feature creates  
another user privacy problem - http://www.interesting-people.org/ 
archives/interesting-people/200506/msg00190.html), and a reader named  
Trenton Lipscomb wrote the following comment, which I think might be  
of interest to the list:


> First, Google does this for only the first result, not all of them.  
> So, it's not really "top search results" but "the first search  
> result".


> Secondly, if you're relying on rows in your access log to determine  
> how many human beings look at your site or see an ad, you're  
> already broken. The <a href="http://iab.net/standards/ 
> measurement.asp">IAB has standards</a> for counting ad impressions,  
> page views, etc.


> You've got to follow these if you're selling ads in any volume.


(See http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/unintended_cons.html  
for the blog posting and additional comments.)
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