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[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Comment still holds

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From: "Serge M. Egelman" <egelman () cs cmu edu>
Date: August 10, 2006 5:50:27 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] AOL

We (the CUPS Lab-- http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/) have greatly benefited
from the AOL data.  In fact, the data set comprised of 20,000 search  
terms gathered over a week was created for a study we conducted last  
summer.  The study examines P3P adoption across search results from  
three popular search engines (Google, Yahoo, and AOL).  I will be  
presenting this paper next week at the International Conference on  
Electronic Commerce.  The full paper can be found here: http:// 
lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/icec06.html

AOL was instrumental in conducting this study.

serge

David Farber wrote:
> I should comment that there are plans for major measurements of the  
> Internet. We MUST be careful to expose any released data to those  
> in research who have studied the problems that AOL ran into.
> Dave
> Begin forwarded message:
> From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska () cs washington edu>
> Date: August 10, 2006 4:55:11 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: Ed Lazowska <lazowska () cs washington edu>
> Subject: AOL
> Dave,
> We need to be sure to give AOL credit for attempting to serve the
> interests of the research community.  They made 6 different datasets
> available, with the explicit goal of making it possible for university
> researchers to work "at scale" on realistic problems in an open and
> collaborative way.  Yes, there was a mistake in terms of the privacy
> implications of one of the datasets.  But AOL was attempting a good  
> deed
> -- unfortunately, a good deed that will not go unpunished.  Let's not
> lose track of this.
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