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Privacy Preserving Web Query Log Publishing: A Survey on Anonymization Techniques (1211.2354v1)
Published 10 Nov 2012 in cs.DB and cs.CR
Abstract: Releasing Web query logs which contain valuable information for research or marketing, can breach the privacy of search engine users. Therefore rendering query logs to limit linking a query to an individual while preserving the data usefulness for analysis, is an important research problem. This survey provides an overview and discussion on the recent studies on this direction.