Category Archives: Google

UPDATED: Ubervu.com – An Example of Duplicate Content Killing Rankings in Google

Update May 1, 2010: I don’t know if Ubervu saw this post, but they fixed the original issue I mentioned by truncating the original HTML titles. I’ve changed the title of this page, and left the post below just as an example of how duplicate content can kill your rankings in Google. Ubervu looks like [...]

The City of Topeka, Kansas Prostrates Themselves to Google

It appears that Topeka, Kansas has decided that it is willing to to give up its basic identity to an Orwellian multinational corporation without even being asked. The town has changed its name to Google, Kansas for a month in an attempt to get Google to bring their Fiber for Communities program to Topeka.

Recent Computer Attacks on Google Prove a Point: Over-collection of Personal Data is Dangerous

In my original post about Google and privacy (Why You Shouldn’t Trust Google), I mentioned that one of the problems with a single company controlling so much data is that there is no way to know who may someday have access to that data.
For examples of undesirable entities who may someday have access to your [...]

Google Privacy: It’s Only Getting Worse

Here are some more developments in the Google/privacy issue since I wrote my original article about Why You Shouldn’t Trust Google.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, confirmed what I wrote about Google and privacy in my previous post — Google is not the only one with access to their massive databases of your personal information:

Google Gains Access to Prescription Records

Google gets even more sinister:

Google to Track Your Location by Cellphone

More Google privacy warnings.
When The Police wrote the stalker-classic song “Every Move you Make” they probably weren’t thinking that a Google application for your cellphone would make their promise “I’ll be watching you” so easy…
Called Latitude, a new Google application allows users to track the physical location of friends and family from their mobile phone [...]

Google Chrome – a browser with severe privacy issues

Google’s new browser was just released. There are already privacy issues:

Google to Hand Over Your IP Address and Data to Viacom

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:

Google and Privacy in the News

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?

Why is Google still indexing feeds, especially URLs that do a 301 redirect?