Search Engines: The Invader to Privacy
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2007-12-07
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INFLIBNET CENTER
Abstract
The Search Engines has dominated the Internet by their popular social services. The web Search
Engines has been regarded as the second most used web service after the popular Internet service,
i.e., e-mail. Worldwide search markets shows that more than 750 million people - an estimated 95
percent of global Internet users conducted 61 billion cumulative searches in every month. In this
paper it has been discussed the magnitude of Search Engine. It has been seen that the Search
Engines keep track of all the searches that the user formulates. The paper discussed the possibility
of invading privacy by the well-advanced Search Engines and possible leakage of personal
information by these web search services. Some solutions have been discussed to cope up with
these Search Engines threats.
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World Wide Web, Search Engines, Privacy Threats, Future Web Search