Microsoft announced Monday that it's introducing new measures on its Live Search application that would erase identifying data from search logs 18 months after it's recorded and will allow users to surf sites with Microsoft-provided ads without having their behavior tracked.
The simplest approach may be through the technology offered by Splunk, which has its own search language that allows you to search through big data, identify useful query types, and express your developing understanding of the structure of the data as you search.
Using Splunk, data and search structures can be saved and identified as foundations for future users.
The Google problem concerns transparency over the data the search giant collects on consumers.
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Google, for instance, stores search data for 18 months after a search is performed.
They plan to pick over this data in search of clues for new products and services.
Google recently improved its privacy record by removing names from search data, following accusations that the search records were vulnerable to government subpoenas.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), for instance, stores search data for 18 months after a search is performed.
Beyond that, the best data scientists are smart, curious, creative, and love swimming through vast amounts of data in search of information that will help them achieve goals.
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Best Stocks for Option Traders: Using the same type of analysis as above, there are many ways we can use the data to search for ideal option plays.
Monster jobs web site has one, 6sense that is a data mining search engine that scans your resume and tracks it through the company, but you have to get past 6sense first.
By combining demographic data with search metrics and statistics for each website, they were able to put together some infographics representing the impact of each blackout across the US. Unsurprisingly, the East and West coasts were the most effected.
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Written by experts who pioneered use of genetic data to search for the aggressive fish, the paper disagrees with government scientists who say many of the positive Asian carp DNA hits recorded in or near the lakes in recent years could have come from other sources, such as excrement from birds that fed on carp in distant rivers.
Well, it looks like Yahoo's not immune to such goings on, as it's just announced that it will renege on its previous data retention promises and hold on to raw search data for 18 months.
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Cooper worries that DoubleClick's massive amount of private data about users' online behavior could be linked to Google's reams of search data to create detailed profiles of individuals.
Google's popular search engine is always trying to incorporate more data, accept more search queries and use more complicated algorithms to produce better results, he said.
Microsoft helped out with the data structures and search needs for making a computer-intensive movie.
In many ways, the biggest obstacle to leveraging Big Data in the search for talent may be HR practitioners themselves.
Nazem recently opened labs in Pasadena and Sunnyvale, Calif. (concentrating in advanced data mining and search) and Berkeley (for social behavior).
More recent data from executive search firms show that preparedness for CEO succession at our largest companies continues to be problematic.
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Google, for example, has come under fire in the past for the way it handles a massive database of user search data.
While just a year ago search data flowed freely and was shared openly with websites, the online world in which we operate has shifted drastically.
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One of the biggest changes to be implemented by Google will allow advertisers to copy ad campaign data to other search engines, such as Microsoft's Bing.
Tim Davie, head of audio and music at the BBC, points out that Radioplayer sharpens competition not only over programming but also over search data and algorithms.
But Mr Clayton said the recent row over search data released by AOL showed that identification of users could still be made even without a machine's unique IP address.
Developed in 2009 in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control, the tool digs through massive amounts of search data (all anonymous) looking for flu-releated searches around the world and maps out the intensity of outbreaks.
The future of search, and all of the personalization that can be served up by that search data, is bound up in how much and what kinds of data can be associated with each of our different accounts.
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For example, using data on searches for trucks and SUVs to predict the monthly sales of motor vehicles reduces the average error by up to 18% compared with the predictions from a model that did not incorporate the search data.
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All of this suggests that Big Data will not only be a revolution in data management and search, but that it will also likely bring to the fore a whole new generation of hot companies specializing in building and selling new tools for mining vast amounts of low-quality data for the rare nuggets.
Additionally, the chance of a random search term correlating with the ILInet data in all ten regions is considerably less than the chance that a random search term can correlate with the data for single location.
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