Information hiding is now an integral part of Internet technologies. In the field of social search engines, for example, contents like pictures or movies are tagged with descriptive labels by contributors, and search results are determined by these descriptions. These collaborative taggings, used for example in Flickr~\cite{Frick} and Delicious~\cite{Delicious} websites, contribute to the development of a Semantic Web, in which every Web page contains machine-readable metadata that describe its content. Information hiding technologies can be used for embedding these metadata. The advantage of its use is the possibility to realize social search without websites and databases: descriptions are directly embedded into media, whatever their formats. Robustness is required in this situation, as descriptions should resist to modifications like resizing, compression, and format conversion.
Information hiding is now an integral part of Internet technologies. In the field of social search engines, for example, contents like pictures or movies are tagged with descriptive labels by contributors, and search results are determined by these descriptions. These collaborative taggings, used for example in Flickr~\cite{Frick} and Delicious~\cite{Delicious} websites, contribute to the development of a Semantic Web, in which every Web page contains machine-readable metadata that describe its content. Information hiding technologies can be used for embedding these metadata. The advantage of its use is the possibility to realize social search without websites and databases: descriptions are directly embedded into media, whatever their formats. Robustness is required in this situation, as descriptions should resist to modifications like resizing, compression, and format conversion.
