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I told you so! I did!<br>
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I've been whining for years that we need to be very very concerned with
Google's corporate actions surrounding privacy. For those of us who
follow Google's actions, they're getting worse, not better. <br>
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And if you think they collect data only when you do searches, you'd be
very, very wrong. I'd wager that for most on this list, they know
every single web page you visit. Every. single. webpage. And have for
years.<br>
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Got any sort of toolbar installed that uses Google? Have that little
green pagerank bar installed? Then every page you hit, you're sending
data to Google. <br>
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What about if you visit sites that use Google analytics. Any one here
NOT using free Google analytics on their site? Every site you visit
running analytics can not only track you on that site, but as you visit
other sites, they can tie your visits across different sites. And if
you're using them on your site, then you're giving them all your
competitive visitor data. Every single visitor that hits your site,
they know where they came from, who they are, and can tie that in with
every other move they've made.<br>
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They're collecting it. But not using it...yet. Except they just
possibly started.<br>
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Google recently banned affiliates from advertising on Google.
Affiliates are people that sell stuff for other folks, basically
commissioned salespeople. Yay everyone says - that's great. Except
after doing that they immediately announced that they had a new
advertising venue for mortgage rates - a traditional bailiwick of
affiliate marketing. If you're still not connecting the dots, they ban
affiliates, then become one themselves.<br>
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Still not a problem? What happens when they decide to walk into your
business market. They're already in mortgages. I could be next. You
could be next.<br>
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December is 'bing-athon' month. It's the month where you switch to
using Bing! as your search engine. No, the idea isn't that MS needs to
take Google's place. The idea is choice - a subject we should all be
familiar with. 1/3 Google, 1/3 MS and 1/3 Yahoo is far better for our
choice than 90% Google and 10% also-rans.<br>
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Like the MS-Opensource battle, a competitive environment is healthy.
Choice is healthy. Lack of choice is bad for us all.<br>
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Lori Paniak wrote:
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