I used to face this kind of question when doing the analysis of search logs at the BBC to produce the "popular searches right now" list.
Obviously I used to filter out obscenities, but, for example, something like 'big brother' or the 'x-factor' would generate a lot of searches on bbc.co.uk, but were not BBC programme - so should the BBC 'censor' what they were showing back to the user as user activity? Personally I would rather the most read/most emailed reflected exactly what the user was doing, and wasn't "most emailed stories from the last 7 days excluding the also in the news section because we are the BBC and we want our readers to look very serious all the time" m - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
