google化する世界

うわー、これはすごい。やられた。
別に研究とは関係ないが、googleスキーであれこれ細かくプロファイルするのが好きな人（当方がそうだ）にはたまらない。
素朴な手法を拡張してここまで完成度高めたのは素直に偉い。偉大。

Unconstrained Endpoint Profiling (Googling the Internet)
Submitted by admin on Wed, 23/07/2008 - 00:00.
Author(s): Ionut Trestian, Supranamaya Ranjan, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Antonio Nucci

Abstract:

Understanding Internet access trends at a global scale, i.e., what do people do on the Internet, is a challenging problem that is typically addressed by analyzing network traces. However, obtaining such traces presents its own set of challenges owing to either privacy concerns or to other operational difficulties. The key hypothesis of our work here is that most of the information needed to profile the Internet endpoints is already available around us in the web.
In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for profiling and classifying endpoints. We implement and deploy a Google-based profiling tool, which accurately characterizes endpoint behavior by collecting and strategically combining information freely available on the web.