Google’s Mega Huge Collection of User Data

Over the last few years Google has added product after product. Each of these products offers some variant or enhancement to their main business which is indexing the web and archiving data. Each one of these Google products catalogs and stores user information in some capacity. I have never been particularly concerned with how my anonymous user data is used but I read an article today that made some really good points. Check it out and see how you feel.

Also, just as a point, I have personally seen the downside to Google using their tools to index pages. Awhile back, Google started picking up pages that we have in development presumably through the Google toolbar. Nobody visited these pages via Google, they were not accessible through any web links, and they were fairly recently created. The only route to them for Google would have been through the Google toolbar. I personally feel Google should only index pages they can spider to.

Check out this article: http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com/index.php/googles-user-data-empire/

Let me know what you think.

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