When You Own The Browser Market

You'd think you have all the data you'd need...

[trillianjedi]

If IE7 "phoned home" with information about surfer habits, page view times etc, you could build a pretty decent search engine quite easily.

Couldn't you?

[smells so good]

Do you really think it would be so easy? Certainly not! But you build an empire with all that data, if..

[trillianjedi]

Do you really think it would be so easy?

Well, coding it is easy. Rolling it out is easy.

The hard part is dealing with the "privacy" evangelists. I mean that would be my big concern, and the reason I wouldn't use it - big brother is watching you.

But what percentage of the market wouldn't care about that?

TJ

[smells so good]

Easy is relative :)

"privacy" evangelists

Privacy would be a huge concern. Mostly because so much personal information could be stored, and, data losses occur far too often, IMO. Anything they built would have to be bulletproof. When was the last time that happened? Aside from that, your clicks and habits are already being stored by big brother and most of his kin. There isn't much left to cry about.

I'm sure they have the talent and resources to put that sort of information into a top-flight 'integrated' search. I would probably use it, too.

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This feature discussion [webmasterworld.com] directly addresses the concerns of many of those evangelists.

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