Re: p3p and search engines

I'd like to echo Lorrie's point here.

I have implemented P3P on small sites and have discussed 
implementation plans with large companies and government agencies. 
P3P is much easier to implement on small sites.

Ari



At 8:23 AM -0400 9/5/02, Lorrie Cranor wrote:
>I hope in the future that we see search engines
>that allow users to specify privacy preferences and
>weight the results accordingly. I don't think it would
>give more weight to big corporate sites. Take a look
>at W3C's list of P3P-enabled sites
>http://www.w3.org/P3P/compliant_sites -- it includes lots
>of small companies, non-profits and individuals.
>You don't have to be a big company to P3P-enable.
>In fact, it's usually much easier for small sites to
>P3P-enable than it is for big companies.
>
>Lorrie
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <[email protected]>
>To: "Graeme Eastman" <[email protected]>
>Cc: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 7:15 AM
>Subject: Re: p3p and search engines
>
>
>>
>>  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.
>>
>>


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