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roc on Feb 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft: 'We do not copy Google's results'

Don't Chrome and the Google Toolbar also track clickstream data to refine search results? I assumed that's what they were asking my permission to phone home with, to 'improve their services'.

Do they gentlemanly ignore clickstreams on competitor web sites?

lallysingh on Feb 1, 2011 [–]

There's what you clicked on, and there's what you typed into a search box, hit enter, and then clicked on. The two are quite different.

roc on Feb 1, 2011 | [–]

It's wrong to associate the clicktrail to the content of the page the link came from? How in the world can you tune for search if you can't/don't include context?

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