[TriLUG] Search Engine question

[Eric H Christensen]

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All search engines keep records.  That is how they improve on their
technologies.  If you don't "log in" to Google or use Google services
then they are not able to track your searches to you personally.

Eric


WA Brown wrote:
> Is there a "google" quality search engine out there? Seems to me if some
> one was to start a search engine that was "google" quality and did not
> keep records. there would be a lot of use for this.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron S. Joyner" <aaron at joyner.ws>
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 1:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Search Engine question
> 
> 
>> Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, WA Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have no experience with search engines. I was wondering if there
>>>> was search engines that I could install on my linux server(Apache
>>>> 2.0) and others could use it?
>>>
>>>
>>> what are you searching? Local pages (htdig, doesn't keep records)?
>>> The internet?
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>> Just to point out a sticky wicket here, just because htdig isn't
>> explicitly keeping logs, be careful what your httpd access logs are
>> grabbing.  In modern versions of apache, on most distributions, the
>> args to a cgi query are not kept, but you can turn it on if you want
>> to, or you may have in the past for debugging and forgotten about it,
>> or your distribution may have done it for you.  Just one more data
>> point to be aware of in the quest of privacy concerns.
>>
>> Also, as a note, most locally installed search engines can't do a very
>> good job of "ranking" the pages you have accessible.  They're
>> generally doing simple keyword-search matching, which is to say if you
>> enter the word "foo", pages results will be ranked in the order of
>> number of times "foo" appears appears on the result page.  This is far
>> less accurate and sophisticated than the matching a modern web search
>> engine does (Google is just one example).  It may be quite sufficient
>> for your purposes, but it's good to be aware of the differences so you
>> can evaluate the search quality of the results for yourself.
>>
>> Aaron S. Joyner
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