On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If you come up with a *solid* way of scrubbing
private data (i.e.
someone accidentally pastes in a confidential message in the search
box) please post it since it would be very nice and useful to make
search data available to the general public if we could resolve that
issue.
Well, if you only post the *top* search queries, accidental pasting of
confidential messages isn't really going to be a problem (when was the
last time *you* accidentally pasted the same message 50,000 times in a
row?). Of course, it might be prone to manipulation if someone felt
mischievous, depending on how many searches per unit time it takes to
get on the list, but that's true for almost anything statistical like
that.