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Concerns with Google Earth

The latest round of privacy (and other) concerns of various types are now hitting Google Earth:

Salon discusses how the alleged plot against JFK airport was being plotted with the images on Google Earth.
CNN discusses the ick factor of finding nosepickers in action on Google Earth imagery.

The first isn’t truly a privacy concern, but it crosses [...]

June 5th, 2007 | Category: data collection, google, local search, privacy, search engine features, tinfoil hats, web 2.0 | Comments are closed

Ceding Control & Its Hazards

I think Aaron Wall of SEOBook wrote a great post this week about Google and the ‘death’ of affiliate marketing. He really focuses on AdSense publishing, but I believe it goes further than that.

He doesn’t mention Google Analytics, but I think GA also factors into Google’s reach for control. There’s some extent to which I [...]

April 20th, 2007 | Category: advertising, analytics, data collection, databases, google, lead generation, marketing, privacy, search engine features, search results, tinfoil hats | Comments are closed

News of the Paranoid

Today’s big news:

Google revenue is up 60%. Google profit is up 69%
Google re-named Search History to Web History, and are pushing the toolbar with PR enabled to track it better.
Tinfoil futures are UP as I manufacture hats for myself, all my loved ones, and my cats.

Now, to be fair, there are ways to disable flowing [...]

April 19th, 2007 | Category: cats, data collection, databases, google, privacy, search engine features, search results, tinfoil hats | Comments are closed

Google Ownz y00

The Wired interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt just confirms what I keep telling everyone who harps on the ‘Don’t be Evil!’ thing — ie, “But Google is GOOD! They have ‘Don’t Be Evil’ as a corporate motto!”

Me: Yeah, let’s define evil, shall we?

Google is pure Web 2.0 in the sense of how they collect and [...]

April 17th, 2007 | Category: PPC, advertising, analytics, data collection, databases, google, privacy, rant, search results, tinfoil hats, web 2.0 | Comments are closed