On Feb 12, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Andrew Kershaw wrote:
Google can track me by IP, and I can't do anything about that. But
voluntarily giving Google more info (like my email address, my
proclivity for talking about Macs, etc) sounds like a bad idea.
Right now, somebody has to go figure that out by adding up
information from various websites. Using Google puts it all right
there in Google's database.
Is anybody else concerned about this, or am I just paranoid?
-
Oh, you aren't the only one concerned, but there isn't going to be
much occurring that isn't _already_.
The web archives of this list are open, and google is already
indexing these lists. Same with some of the netbsd ones I'm on- I
googled for ideas about a problem I was having, top on the list of
hits, the post I'd made the previous day s to port-cobalt.
Look, it took me 5 seconds to take a snip from your last email to
this list (of Feb 4) and find you via google: (the h t t p part
whacked to try and defeat list filters):
www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22IOxperts+wrote+a+Prism+chipset
+driver...%22&btnG=Search
What have you been *doing* for almost 2 weeks without a post here,
Drew? Meeting with your radical Mac underground group? :) We will
have to watch you more closely.
Seriously, this search engine creep isn't a great thing, especially
with the google toolbar sucking all you *documents* to their server
for harvesting- unbelieveable! But moving the lists to google, while
I don't like it either (will the darn footers get shorter as the big
guy will get ad revenue now??? I hope so) won't obviously be that
much different than what gets archived now.
I guess you could count google's access to full email addresses as a
change, since currently those are munged in the archive. The munging
is a comparatively new thing though, IIRC they used to be put back
intact. So all of our full email addresses persist in google forever
from those days.
Brian
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