Thaths wrote:
hi thaths, thanks for the explanations.
Do you happen to know if Yahoo does not log and aggregate and match
requests coming from a certain IP? What about Amazon? How about imdb?
The Register? Times.co.uk? How about your ISP? Do you know if they are
logging and aggregating all the requests and packets going out of your
IP?
i am aware of that google is not the only infringer. indeed i assume
that many of the services you mentioned increase their profitability by
doing exactly this. i am curious to find out how wikia will develop in
these questions.
the problem with google is one of scale, not principle. it is just far
too many things that we do with google and far too many private data
points in the hand of a single company.
A fact of the web today is that almost all web sites log activity.
Many of them aggregate these against IP addresses to analyze the kind
of traffic they are getting. Google has a publicly stated position on
how we handle logs - they anonymize logs after a year. See
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/google_to_anony.html and
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/taking-steps-to-further-improve-our.html
thanks for the links.
"By anonymizing our server logs after 18-24 months, we think we’re
striking the right balance between two goals". don't quite understand
what that exactly means. just the deletion of the ip addresses?
-b
