Comments on: Google Sidewiki Forced me to Press OK http://www.smoblogger.com/google-sidewiki/ The Social Media Optimization Blogger Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean Pellegrino http://www.smoblogger.com/google-sidewiki/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Sean Pellegrino Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:33:43 +0000 http://www.smoblogger.com/?p=183#comment-112 No wonder they are pushing for it, sidewiki fits nicely well to their long term profit orientation strategy. It just takes some valuable real estate from websites and allow trolls, spammers and others to post "graffiti" on your website. True not everyone will see it, but given Google's size and the average web user's ignorance, people will be led to believe that those comments are really from the webpages they are viewing. How many computers do you think have the google toolbar? And its only a matter of time before Google monetizes that space with contextual, personalized adsense/adwords ads. And Google, I wont be forced to show sidewiki comments on my sites. And here's a blog post about the toolbar spying even after being uninstalled. www.seobook.com/i-turned-google-toolbar-it-kept-spying-me No wonder they are pushing for it, sidewiki fits nicely well to their long term profit orientation strategy. It just takes some valuable real estate from websites and allow trolls, spammers and others to post “graffiti” on your website. True not everyone will see it, but given Google’s size and the average web user’s ignorance, people will be led to believe that those comments are really from the webpages they are viewing. How many computers do you think have the google toolbar?

And its only a matter of time before Google monetizes that space with contextual, personalized adsense/adwords ads.

And Google, I wont be forced to show sidewiki comments on my sites.

And here’s a blog post about the toolbar spying even after being uninstalled. http://www.seobook.com/i-turned-google-toolbar-it-kept-spying-me

]]> By: Mike Bensonn http://www.smoblogger.com/google-sidewiki/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Mike Bensonn Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:37:18 +0000 http://www.smoblogger.com/?p=183#comment-109 This is what happens when Google wants to push for a new product. This is what happens when Google wants to push for a new product.

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