On 8/27/05, Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com wrote:
On 27/08/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
We don't have any logs of what people searched for. This might be regarded a privacy violation if we did.
I don't think the enquirer meant anything more than "most searched-for terms" information. Both the BBC and Google publish that. If it's good enough for them...
They don't actually publish "most searched-for terms". They select often searched-for terms that look nice on their "recent searches" or zeitgeist pages. They're very selective in what's displayed there. It's harder for us to do this unless someone with access to that data (and I'm not sure it is even kept yet) would be willing to filter it in some way. I don't object to showing the most searched for terms, but users should be told in advance that this is happening. I'm not sure that would be so useful in terms of finding things that people are searching for that we don't have though since we're more likely to have pages (or not want them) on the things that are most searched for.
Angela.