Miamacs - 11:59 am on Jul 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

limited # of people running the Googlebar

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Google Search History- Preferences- Accounts- Gmail cookies, Analytics, AdSense, DoubleClick data, +stats of MySpace, YouTube, AOL, whoknowswhatelse... might be a colorful patchwork but their set of user behavior data is world class ( #1 as of current ). They're just not using it ( yet / to full potential ) on organic search.

Haven't they been using it for AdWords quality and relevancy checks with success? Basically apart of phrase based filtering and regionalization that's all they do to rank ads: watch what users do, analyze, react ( unless your business model is unwanted your bid price, placement, quality scores... all depend on historic user behavior data ).

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Of course the dataset is nowhere as large or as 'interesting' as if *everyone* using IE was contributing to the database.

I like that list above... would be interesting if *I* knew all this.
Not sure if I want MS to know *heh*...

either way, as long as MS keeps spying only on things they could learn /use legally 'if they owned every website on the net'... it's fine I guess. And for that purpose ... not sure about this but...

how much more data would they need apart of what their Phishing filters dial back home with...?

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