Friday, October 28, 2005
Earth to Google -- Or is it just me?
See post by Kamau at http://www.searchengineplan.com/blogs/2005/10/earth-to-google-or-is-it-just-me.htm about the furor caused by Google maps.
My comments:
Google already own a mass of personal information including all of your prior searches through their use of a 30+year cookie. With their new portal they would also know your name, age, personal preferences. Their toolbar tracks URLs accessed (when page rank is turned on). If Microsoft had this amount of information on anyone there would be a huge to-do, but Google is getting away with it. For how long though? People will wise up to the 'evil empire'.
My comments:
Google already own a mass of personal information including all of your prior searches through their use of a 30+year cookie. With their new portal they would also know your name, age, personal preferences. Their toolbar tracks URLs accessed (when page rank is turned on). If Microsoft had this amount of information on anyone there would be a huge to-do, but Google is getting away with it. For how long though? People will wise up to the 'evil empire'.
