Publishing search logs—a comparative study of privacy guarantees

• Main Authors: Gӧtz, Michaela, Machanavajjhala, Ashwin, Wang, Guozhang, Xiao, Xiaokui, Gehrke, Johannes
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99136; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13479
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Search engine companies collect the “database of intentions,” the histories of their users' search queries. These search logs are a gold mine for researchers. Search engine companies, however, are wary of publishing search logs in order not to disclose sensitive information. In this paper, we a...