[Foundation-l] What? Why? Who?

Sat Aug 27 18:46:20 UTC 2005

On 8/27/05, Dan Grey <dangrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27/08/05, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We don't have any logs of what people searched for. This might be
> > regarded a privacy violation if we did.
> 
> I don't think the enquirer meant anything more than "most searched-for
> terms" information. Both the BBC and Google publish that. If it's good
> enough for them...

They don't actually publish "most searched-for terms". They select
often searched-for terms that look nice on their "recent searches" or
zeitgeist pages. They're very selective in what's displayed there.
It's harder for us to do this unless someone with access to that data
(and I'm not sure it is even kept yet) would be willing to filter it
in some way. I don't object to showing the most searched for terms,
but users should be told in advance that this is happening. I'm not
sure that would be so useful in terms of finding things that people
are searching for that we don't have though since we're more likely to
have pages (or not want them) on the things that are most searched
for.

Angela.