[Search-l] Coop - Custom search engine

[Christian Ledermann]

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 22:49 +0200, Balinny wrote:
> I wouldn't call that 'private'. It must be clear that it can be
> provided 
> to external users (although
> it will have completely different scores than in your internal one).
> At 
> the very least, the search
> engine shall be allowed to use that data to crawl those urls for 
> third-party users.
> 
> We don't want something like this: ;)
> -You showed my private information to other users!
> -Well, the search engine just answered the query providing your blog.
> -It was a private search engine!
> -It happened that only your web had a hit for asdfghjjj. What's wrong
> on 
> showing the result?
> -It was my secret diary!! And now hundreds of people are visiting it!
> -If you wanted a secret diary, why do you placed that in a blog?
> -So i could use Wikia Search to search on it, obviously.

No, that's not what I meant, let me construct a use case:

So called 'hacker tools' are outlawed by several countries, I am a
security consultant in one of those countries, so i do need information
what is going on in terms of exploits, scanning tools, etc. but I do not
necessarily want to draw attention to the fact that i have a search
engine that focuses on 'hacking and cracking'. 

So my 'personal search engine' will not be available to anyone (except
others i invited to collaborate) a.) to have a look at the sites to be
included in the search or to b) use the 'personal search engine' 

wikia search otoh is allowed to crawl those sites of course( this is not
a tool to exclude sites from search, that's what robot.txt or
authentication is for) and use the description, keywords and ratings.
 

well, maybe this is not the best way to tackle this, there might be
other and better ways to achieve this form of privacy. Anyway this is
not the main use case of a focused search engine so it easily can be
dropped or deferred.



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Best Regards,

Christian Ledermann