Re: p3p and search engines

Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:15:54 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.p3p.policy
Organization NIC France
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 06:41:04PM +0800,
 Graeme Eastman <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 24 lines which said:

> It would seem entirely logical to me that a search engine would give more 
> weight to sites that had proper a privacy policy as it is more likely to be 
> a current and responsible site, and therefore potentially more useful to a 
> user.

It could mean also that it is a site with more manpower. Giving a
higher ranking to P3P-enabled sites would favor big corporations over
small companies, not-for-profit societies and individual users. The
search engines already favor too much the Big Official Corporate
Sites.