On the Privacy of Web Search Based on Query Obfuscation: A Case Study of TrackMeNot.
Sai Teja PeddintiNitesh SaxenaPublished in: Privacy Enhancing Technologies (2010)
Keyphrases
- web search
- search queries
- search logs
- query suggestion
- search engine
- web queries
- user clicks
- relevance ranking
- response time
- query expansion
- ad hoc retrieval
- query processing
- query dependent
- federated search
- data transformation
- privacy preserving
- personalized web search
- web retrieval
- web searches
- search experience
- web search engines
- user queries
- search result
- relevance feedback
- personalized search
- differential privacy
- database
- query logs
- improving web search
- result lists
- data sources
- retrieval systems
- current web search engines
- web pages
- information retrieval systems
- keywords
- query formulation
- query terms
- user intent
- query evaluation
- case study
- web search queries
- ranking functions
- enterprise search
- data structure
- ambiguous queries
- document relevance
- privacy preserving data mining
- sensitive information
- private information
- privacy protection
- query reformulation