On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
If you come up with a *solid* way of scrubbing private data (i.e. someone accidentally pastes in a confidential message in the search box) please post it since it would be very nice and useful to make search data available to the general public if we could resolve that issue.
Well, if you only post the *top* search queries, accidental pasting of confidential messages isn't really going to be a problem (when was the last time *you* accidentally pasted the same message 50,000 times in a row?). Of course, it might be prone to manipulation if someone felt mischievous, depending on how many searches per unit time it takes to get on the list, but that's true for almost anything statistical like that.