On 7/6/06, Nick Jenkins nickpj@gmail.com wrote:
But other page count systems have been removed in that past by Brion because of privacy reasons.
Well, it *is* a pretty good reason. If you store any logs and are a high-profile source of public information and those logs can in any way be linked back to a specific user, then you must assume that sooner or later someone may take you to court to get access to those logs.
And then the way to stop this is to abstract the logs for the traffic we want, and throw the raw logs away as quickly as possible. Something of the the level of data that google trends can provide to the public is basically the type of thing we'd want to have (broad numbers on the only most popular search terms/pages).