On 8/27/05, Dan Grey <dangrey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 27/08/05, Angela <beesley(a)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.