Google Whores Out Users With False Privacy Claims (SEO Books)
So today Google announced that they have turned on SSL by default for logged
in users, a feature that has been available for a while on
encrypted.google.com. The way they set it up, as explained in this post, means
that your search query will not be forwarded to the website you’re visiting
and that they can only see that you’ve come from an organic Google result.
**If you’re buying AdWords however, you still get the query data.**
This is what I call hypocrisy at work. Google cares about your privacy, unless
they make money on you, then they don’t. The fact is that due to this change,
AdWords gets favored over organic results. Once again, Google gets to claim
that it cares about your privacy and pulls a major public “stunt”. The issue
is, they don’t care about your privacy enough to not give that data to their
advertisers.
That might also enlighten you to the real issue: Google still _has all your
search data_. It’s just not allowing website owners to see it anymore. It’s
giving website owners aggregated data through Google Webmaster Tools, which
would be nice if it hadn’t shown to be …
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