A couple of interesting tidbits of information came my way this morning. Both to do with privacy and pulling in opposite directions.
Firstly you will notice that most domain sellers have a Private Registration option where you can withold your address from the public. This is much valued by those of us who like, er, privacy but does it make business sense and does it incur a penalty by Google?
There are certainly some people who will check your contact details before they buy from you and will not buy if they see an anonymous website with no name, address etc.
You could call that the price you pay for privacy…
But there has been a worry by some that there would be penalties imposed by search engines simply because many "black hat" webmasters use private registration for their spam sites.
"No worries!" is the comment from John Mueller. "Who he?" you ask well just pop over to Google Groups (where else?) and see for yourself.
Look down the page and you will see a comment by "JohnMu". then click on the profile to check him out.
The other privacy concern is about Google maps. You may just think of this as an oddity or a help when you want to get somewhere but just look at these images
And there others with more detail I could call on here. Not only are Google spying on everybody (and yes the corporate knucklehead in the video gives you a form to fill in to be removed ) but Google have launched their own satellite to make their images even better or should that be worse?
I think there is an important issue of privacy here. I may or may not have an issue with a Government having detailed images of me ( I do, I do ) but I am outraged that a multi billion advertising agency ( i.e. Google) has those images and even has its own satellite! or at least access to the images
I find it richly ironic that Google gives your landing page a higher quality score for having a published "Privacy Policy" but takes detailed images from space and publishes them without our permission.
enough from me, what's your take on all this?
Alex
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