My longer post on how to protect yourself against Google is coming soon, but in the meantime here is another article about Google and privacy:
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Google and Privacy in the News
June 28, 2008 – 1:52 am
As promised, I have one more longer post about Google and privacy risks coming soon.
In the meantime, here are some recent related news items about technology and privacy:
Why Is Google Still Indexing Feeds?
April 23, 2008 – 12:25 am
Why is Google still indexing feeds, especially URLs that do a 301 redirect?
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Google
April 17, 2008 – 2:53 am
Non-profits should be especially wary about using Google Apps.
Glaring Omission from Google’s Cloaking Examples
April 8, 2008 – 5:28 am
I was reading through Google’s Webmaster Guidelines for the section that said, “do not cloak your site by giving search engines text content but giving users a login screen.” I wanted to give someone a definitive answer on why they could not cloak their content by presenting a login screen to human visitors. […]
WordPress Comment Spam Warning
April 1, 2008 – 10:33 pm
WordPress attack is being followed up by comment spam campaign. Here is a way to prevent it from wasting your time.
How Long Does It Take For a Google Reinclusion Request?
March 29, 2008 – 12:49 am
As mentioned on the 20th, PocketSEO.com was hacked and penalized by Google. I submitted a reinclusion request the same day that I discovered the problem.
Today is the first day that the site is coming back in Google’s rankings (8 days). I don’t think that Google has followed up on the reinclusion request. […]
Japanese Blogging is #1 (37% Japanese; 36% English)
March 27, 2008 – 2:12 am
Interesting fact about Japanese being the #1 language for blogging:
There are more blog posts in Japanese than any other language, according to Technorati Inc., which tracks nearly 113 million blogs globally. Last year, Technorati found 37 percent of all postings were in Japanese — about 1.5 million per day. Postings in English — from Americans, […]
Is Rook Analytics Metapredict?
March 24, 2008 – 2:38 am
RookAnalytics.com looks like it might be run by the same people as Metapredict.com (domain tasters).
The Final Cure for WordPress Link Injection
March 23, 2008 – 11:04 am
Someone please write this script and put an end to WordPress link-injection hacking.
