Web Search Query Privacy, an End-User Perspective

Abstract

While search engines have become vital tools for searching information on the Internet, privacy issues remain a growing concern due to the technological abilities of search engines to retain user search logs. Although such capabilities might provide enhanced personalized search results, the confidentiality of user intent remains uncertain. Even with web search query obfuscation techniques, another challenge remains, namely, reusing the same obfuscation methods is problematic, given that search engines have enormous computation and storage resources for query disambiguation. A number of web search query privacy procedures involve the cooperation of the search engine, a nontrusted entity in such cases, making query obfuscation even more challenging. In this study, we provide a review on how search engines work in regards to web search queries and user intent. Secondly, this study reviews material in a manner accessible to those outside computer science with the intent to introduce knowledge of web search engines to enable non-computer scientists to approach web search query privacy innovatively. As a contribution, we identify and highlight areas open for further investigative and innovative research in regards to end-user personalized web search privacy-that is methods that can be executed on the user side without third party involvement such as, search engines. The goal is to motivate future web search obfuscation heuristics that give users control over their personal search privacy.

Development of mobile application for Malay translated hadith search engine

“…The whole process of Information Retrieval is illustrated in Figure 1 [23,24]. In the Text Operations, Malay Translated Hadith corpus will be pre-processed by tokenizing, removing stop words and stemming to get the index terms and produce the inverted indexed file.…”

“…There is a need to have a simple and easy search engine in mobile platform with an attractive interface to attract more users to use this application [11]. The hadiths collections that are published either in form of digital sources or books are limited for other languages except Arabic, English and Indonesian [22,23]. This research aims to develop a mobile application search engine for Malay translated hadith for fast and easy searching in assisting targeted users to satisfy their information needs.…”

Participation and Privacy Perception in Virtual Environments: The Role of Sense of Community, Culture and Gender between Italian and Turkish

“…The ICT revolution, the new media and the Internet, improved deeply the relevance of privacy, as well as of security requirements [28][29][30]. The same concept of Privacy has been reformulated and represented as a "multidimensional object", no longer representable using the classic definitions [31].…”