Comments on: Still Wearing My Google TinFoil Hat After All These Years

By: g1smd

g1smd — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:12:47 +0000

Anyone know how much data Google stores about their visitors, and what they read on the web?

This much…. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-evil-side-of-google-exploring-googles-user-data-collection

Holy sh*t!

By: Mayank - Four Tier Annihilation

Mayank - Four Tier Annihilation — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:39:37 +0000

I know its invasive, but having all the things at one place (analytics,docs,reader,alerts and so on)is just so damn convenient.
Not to mention – free and of top notch quality.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:48:44 +0000

Hmm. An SEO afraid of a search engine….kinda like a vet afraid of dogs, wouldn’t ya say? 🙂

Digging deeper into this analogy we realize both dogs as search engines see in primarily black and white…perhaps a few shades of gray.

Is it possible you sometimes where the wrong color hat?

(Did y’all get that, it was funny)

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:15:26 +0000

Kostas, a sense of humor and an occasional chuckle is never pointless. Life needs us to be able to laugh at our foibles.

By: kostas

kostas — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:11:08 +0000

a pointless article I think? if you’re so worried about your privacy just unplug your modem

By: Dana Lookadoo

Dana Lookadoo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:33:49 +0000

FYI that I use the Groowe Search Toolbar now. I need to find out how has access to that data. But, I do search “logged in” to multiple Google accounts (OUCH). I’m “trusting” their privacy policy.

I no longer us the Google Toolbar/Spybar. I developed a new site that had no widgets, no snippets of code, no links coming to it. I didn’t put up a robots.txt file yet, because I figured they wouldn’t find it. I even left the META tags off, other than the TITLE. The site got indexed! At SES SJ last August, I asked about it to a search panel. The answer came from the audience. A guy who moderates for WebMasterWorld informed me they probably got the data from my Google Toolbar.

By: Chris Dohman

Chris Dohman — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:46:50 +0000

i’m not too worried about the g-bar. i use because it is handy for bookmarks, site search, page rank, backwards links, and cached pages. i know i could get these in other convenient ways if i looked into it a bit, but what the heck, i don’t think google is too worried about me.

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:49:26 +0000

Dang it, Andy! *mumble, grumble, razzle, frazzle* (goes off to adjust foil crimping to block trackur)

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:45:49 +0000

You might want to add Trackur.com to your “tin foil” list because it told me you were discussing my name. 😉 Trackur is watching!

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:35:17 +0000

ROTFLMAO! Dang it, that’s what I get for actually working, instead of spending more time trolling the appropriate paranoia forums. (*mumble, mumble, must go get new helmet).