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Private web search

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Privacy in electronic society, 2007
Web search is currently a source of growing concern about personal privacy. It is an essential and central part of most users' activity online and therefore one through which a significant amount of personal information may be revealed.To help users protect their privacy, we have designed and implemented Private WebSearch (PWS), a usable client-side ...
Felipe Saint-Jean   +3 more
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Single-party private web search

2012 Tenth Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, 2012
Web search engines profile their users by storing and analyzing their past searches. Profiles reflect the interests of the users and enable web search engines to offer a better service. In this way, search results are personalized to fulfill the expectations of each individual user. Nevertheless, this service is not provided without cost. User profiles
Alexandre Viejo   +3 more
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Versatile Query Scrambling for Private Web Search

Information Retrieval Journal, 2015
We consider the problem of privacy leaks suffered by Internet users when they perform web searches, and propose a framework to mitigate them. In brief, given a `sensitive' search query, the objective of our work is to retrieve the target documents from a search engine without disclosing the actual query.
Avi Arampatzis   +2 more
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Improving Query Delay in Private Web Search

2011 International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing, 2011
The Internet is a huge repository of information. Web search engines are a basic tool for finding and accessing all this information. However, these tools might also be a threat for the privacy of their users. This happens because users frequently reveal private information in their queries. Web search engines gather this personal data, store it during
Cristina Romero-Tris   +2 more
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Distributed system for private web search with untrusted partners

Computer Networks, 2014
Abstract Web search engines (WSEs) allow information retrieval from the Internet, a really useful service which is not provided without cost: users’ queries and related information (e.g., query time, browser type, etc.) are stored and analyzed in the WSE database.
Cristina Romero-Tris   +2 more
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State of the Art in Distributed Privacy-Preserving Protocols in Private Web Search

2023
Web search engine (WSE) is an inevitable software system used by people worldwide to retrieve data from the web by using keywords called queries. WSE stores search queries to build the user's profile and provide personalized results. User search queries often hold identifiable information that could compromise the user's privacy.
Mohib Ullah   +4 more
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Providing useful and private Web search by means of social network profiling

2013 Eleventh Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, 2013
Web search engines (WSEs) build user profiles and use them to offer an enhanced web search experience. Nevertheless, these elements might contain sensitive data that may represent a privacy threat for the users. There are some works in the literature that address this situation while preserving the profile usefulness.
Alexandre Viejo, David Sanchez
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