depth first search » tin foil hat http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ahead of the Curve http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2008/04/05/i-am-ahead-of-the-curve/ http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2008/04/05/i-am-ahead-of-the-curve/#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:42:02 +0000 JS http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2008/04/05/i-am-ahead-of-the-curve/ This article won’t be news to you if you follow my blog. I like how the fact that HitWise is spying on web traffic was completely overlooked by the NY Times, and only “discovered” by the Washington Post four months later.

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Saw the post on the Coase Theorem and the Gmail/GM scenario. On the assumption that someone looking for the Gmail site, upon arriving at GM, would continue on to the correct Gmail URL, we pulled U.S. data on visits leaving car manufacturer sites going to Gmail.

Unless of course, your ISP is spying on you.

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