Hello,

Gregory (? if I remember well) mentioned in August 2009 this:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1446862
All examined sites spy on their visitors, but Wikimedia and Wikipedia.

Kind regards
Ziko


2010/4/11 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Fuster, Mayo <mayo.fus...@eui.eu> wrote:
>> * Does the site learn from the navigation and searches? That is, if a
>> Wikipedia visitor who reads a Network entry then goes to the Manuel Castells
>> entry, Will the system understand there is a connexion between them? Will
>> next time put them together when presenting search results?
>
> No.
>
> Although that is an interesting area of research.
>
> Unfortunately, due to privacy concerns the data that would be required
> to invent such a system (search strings and search click through
> traces) is not available to the public.  (and in fact, the traces
> aren't really collected, currently, as far as I know)
>
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Ziko van Dijk
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