Preserving user's privacy in web search engines

Computer Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 13-14, 2009, Pages 1541-1551

  Castellà Roca, Jordi ^a   Viejo, Alexandre ^a,b   Herrera Joancomartí, Jordi ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cryptography; Privacy; Private information retrieval; Web search

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; HIGH COSTS; MICROSOFT; NEW MECHANISMS; PRIVACY; PRIVATE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; USER PROFILE; WEB SEARCH; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SEARCHES;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 67650617685     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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