The Eye of the Google
(Who’s watching me)
I don’t know anymore
Are the neighbors watching me
Well, is the mail man watching me
(Tell me who’s watching)
And I don’t feel safe anymore
Oh, what a mess
I wonder who’s watching me now
In the wake of all todays news and controversies over data streams. We dear webmaster are left with a choice.
Will you be tracked or not? Not by big brother. I mean by Google. Well I guess that is big brother. Well kind of.
Anyway, what I mean to say is Google tracks lots of this interweb thing. And well, if we want to be on the interweb thing and favored by Google. Then we need to play by their rules to a large extent.
I am doing a webinar on exactly that. And then some. Because you can also profit from Google’s largess
Yes Tim I want to Reserve my Spot on the Webinar! Here
http://donttrack.us/ This site explains your data flow that comes from Google and how it is used or abused. It is supported by DuckDuckGo.com which does not track you.
How Google Tracks us
Google Maps sees us from a “god” view and from the street.
Google also has tracking software on close to 60% of the sites on the web. They have enough reach to be able to track us from site to site. And track a site and its owners activity. Properties like GPlus, Youtube and Android assist greatly in datamining our personal datapoints. This leaves us with many traffic opportunities from many data points too if we know how.