[ NNSquad ] Wikipedia Releases Search Data To Public But Pulls It After Privacy Concerns

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Wikipedia Releases Search Data To Public But Pulls It After Privacy Concerns

http://j.mp/UliCVF  (Search Engine Land)

    Wikipieda announced they have decided to give away their search data
    to the public for free. Yea, they would just give away search data to
    anyone would wanted to download it. Shortly after they announced this,
    they decided to "temporarily taken down this data to make additional
    improvements to the anonymization protocol related to the search
    queries."

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I am increasingly unimpressed with Wikipedia's "management" -- why the
hell didn't they think this through before the initial data release?

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
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