[IP] rather different stance than G...

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Michael Zimmer [zimmerm@uwm.edu]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:17 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] rather different stance  than G...

Here's more from Cuil's "Our Philosophy" page (<http://www.cuil.com/info/our_philosophy/
 >)

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Cuil analyzes the Web, not its users

Privacy is a hot topic these days, and we want you to feel totally
comfortable using our service. Because Cuil analyzes Web pages and not
click-throughs, we don’t need to know your search history and habits.
So our privacy policy is very simple: when you search with Cuil, we do
not collect any personally identifiable information, period. We have
no idea who sends queries: not by name, not by IP address, and not by
cookie. Your search history is your business, not ours. We don’t need
to keep logs of our users’ search activity, so we don’t. For further
details, read our Privacy Policy. Don’t worry, it’s short and to the
point. No legal mumbo-jumbo.
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This is particularly interesting since all the other major search
providers insist retaining detailed user logs is necessary for both
business model, efficiency, and legal reasons (see, for example, <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/why-does-google-remember-information.html
 >)

Will this change once Cuil (presumably) starts serving ads?

-mz


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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
e: zimmerm@uwm.edu
w: www.michaelzimmer.org

On Jul 28, 2008, at 11:58 AM, David Farber wrote:

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> From: Jonathan Smith [jms@cis.upenn.edu]
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:42 AM
> To: David Farber
> Subject: http://www.cuil.com/info/privacy/
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> Interesting stance.....
> -JMS
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