Search Engines and User Privacy

 

 

Dr. Fayza Dasouqi Ahmed

Teacher, Bani Suif University,

Dept. of Librarianship and Archives, Egypt

 

Information Studies

Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud University

Saudi Arabia

fayzadesokky@yahoo.com

 

 

Keywords

Search engines, privacy

 

Abstract

A study aiming at exploring how search engines protect users privacy, and make advices that help users protecting their privacy during searching the internet. The research resulted that search engines gather information about their users, and it became easy define any user, and search engines may be share user information with any other organizations without users agreement. As a final result: most search engines do not save user privacy.

 

How To Cite This Article?

Fayza Dasouqi Ahmed. Search Engines and User Privacy .- cybrarians journal .- No.18 (March 2009) . - Accessed <State here the date you accessed this page> .- Available at: http://www.cybrarians.info/journal/en/no18/internet_privacy.htm

 

The full text of this article available in Arabic at: http://www.cybrarians.info/journal/no18/internet_privacy.htm