Hello,
Gregory (? if I remember well) mentioned in August 2009 this: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1446862 All examined sites spy on their visitors, but Wikimedia and Wikipedia.
Kind regards Ziko
2010/4/11 Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Fuster, Mayo Mayo.Fuster@eui.eu wrote:
- Does the site learn from the navigation and searches? That is, if a
Wikipedia visitor who reads a Network entry then goes to the Manuel Castells entry, Will the system understand there is a connexion between them? Will next time put them together when presenting search results?
No.
Although that is an interesting area of research.
Unfortunately, due to privacy concerns the data that would be required to invent such a system (search strings and search click through traces) is not available to the public. (and in fact, the traces aren't really collected, currently, as far as I know)
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