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The Value of Web Search Privacy
IEEE Security & Privacy, 2015A pioneering study of behavioral economics examines the value of search engine privacy features to consumers, particularly compared with convenience and search result quality.
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Personalization and privacy in profile-based web search
2016 International Conference on Research Advances in Integrated Navigation Systems (RAINS), 2016Personalized Web Search is a method of searching to improve the quality and accuracy of web search. It has gained much attention recently. The main goal of personalized web search is to customize search results that are more relevant and tailored to the user interests.
A T Ramitha, J S Jayasudha
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Censorship-resistant and privacy-preserving distributed web search
14-th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2014The vast majority of Internet users are relying on centralized search engine providers to conduct their web searches. However, search results can be censored and search queries can be recorded by these providers without the user's knowledge. Distributed web search engines based on peer-to-peer networks have been proposed to mitigate these threats.
Michael Herrmann +4 more
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2010
Web search engines gather a lot of information on the preferences and interests of users. They actually gather enough information to create detailed user profiles which might enable re-identification of the individuals to which those profiles correspond, e.g.
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Web search engines gather a lot of information on the preferences and interests of users. They actually gather enough information to create detailed user profiles which might enable re-identification of the individuals to which those profiles correspond, e.g.
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Understanding the privacy-personalization dilemma for web search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013Contemporary search engines use a variety of techniques to personalize search results based on users' past queries. While studies have found that users generally prefer personalized search results to non-personalized ones, recent surveys also indicate growing reservations with respect to personalization because of its privacy implications.
Saurabh Panjwani +3 more
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Privacy Exposure Measure: A Privacy-Preserving Technique for Health-Related Web Search
Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, 2019The increasing use of web search engines (WSEs) for searching healthcare information has resulted in a growing number of users posting personal health information online. A recent survey demonstrates that over 80% of patients use WSE to seek health information.
Rafiullah Khan +4 more
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Topic Model based Privacy Protection in Personalized Web Search
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016Modern search engines utilize users' search history for personalization, which provides more effective, useful and relevant search results. However, it also has the potential risk of revealing users' privacy by identifying their underlying intention from their logged search behaviors.
Wasi Uddin Ahmad +2 more
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Profiling social networks to provide useful and privacy‐preserving web search
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2014Web search engines (WSEs) use search queries to profile users and to provide personalized services like query disambiguation or refinement. These services are valuable because users get an enhanced search experience. However, the compiled user profiles may contain sensitive information that might represent a privacy threat.
Viejo, Alexandre, Sánchez, David
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Advancement in Personalized Web Search Engine with Customized Privacy Protection
2017Technologies are blooming, needs are growing, larger user data is getting aggregated, and thus privacy becomes a matter of concern in this fast paced, technology driven environment. People are relying mostly on Internet for almost everything they work on or experience. The web search engines confuse us sometimes by giving mixed results.
Jeena Mariam Saji +4 more
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