Collaborative Search and User Privacy:How Can They Be Reconciled?

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“…While many users expressed their interest for information on other users' searches in our interviews, they also raised privacy concerns about revealing own search behavior (see e.g. also [1]). …”

Social search and need-driven knowledge sharing in Wikis with Woogle

“…Since similar limitations apply to existing studies on sharing behavior and privacy concerns (e.g. [15][30] [8]) we expect more generalizable insights into these aspects from our survey.…”

“…Q&A systems, such as Yahoo Answers 7 or Ask.com 8 acknowledge the social nature of information exchange processes by giving its users the opportunity to discuss questions and different answers. They also have an explicit representation of information needs.…”

“…When discussing social search and knowledge sharing, privacy is a major issue for many users [8]. For the realization of our system, we had to address it in two different ways -concerning the operational part and concerning the evaluation.…”

“…However, many information providers want to retain such control, since information might be premature or sensitive [31]. Also, the storage and analysis of information needs required careful attention within our approach [8].…”