Comments on: Ask Takes Google to Task on Privacy

By: Raj Krishnaswamy

Raj Krishnaswamy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:15:17 +0000

Ask ? Who ? I agree that with 5% of the share, Ask is nowhere. They are simply trying to get more eyeballs; and frankly it is not going to work.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:50:11 +0000

“We’ve also added some specific privacy policy requirements that make it necessary for publishers to post and abide by a transparent privacy policy for their users. According to this policy, publishers must notify their users of the use of cookies and/or web beacons to collect data in the ad serving process. This change relates to advertisers’ use of innovative products and features like Gadget Ads, Google’s new test ad server, and other offerings(Google Analytics)! in the future.”

By: Nicole Price

Nicole Price — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:28:58 +0000

Irrespective of the usefulness of the service offered, that it has offered something unique that the big daddy does not is interesting. Will be interesting to see what happens. Nicole Price's last blog post..Bag It!

By: Warenwirtschaft

Warenwirtschaft — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:29:31 +0000

I think this whole privacy-link-discussion is absolutely useless. Who cares if they have the link on the homepage or one click later. Why is the privacy statement so important. Does anybody read it? Does it change anything if i read it? Can i load up my own privacy-statement if i use google-search replacing their statement?
This is just a useless discussion. What is interesting is, if they have clauses in their statement that are critical. Or if they follow it or ignore it. That would be an interesting discussion. Not some useless link-position.

By: Otilia Otlacan

Otilia Otlacan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:36:17 +0000

The irony is, Google itself requires that publishers employing the AdSense program have a privacy policy and link to it Since AdSense is really a monetizing solution for small and mid-sized publishers, I can’t help but giggle thinking of the plethora of blogs and tiny sites developing privacy policies… right, as if this will happen!
To quote a recent entry from the AdSense Help Center (added after they have enabled 3rd party ads to be served on their content network): “We’ve also added some specific privacy policy requirements that make it necessary for publishers to post and abide by a transparent privacy policy for their users. According to this policy, publishers must notify their users of the use of cookies and/or web beacons to collect data in the ad serving process. This change relates to advertisers’ use of innovative products and features like Gadget Ads, Google’s new test ad server, and other offerings in the future.”
One more policy that will never be enforced…

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By: PS3

PS3 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:52:20 +0000

What would Jeeves had said

5% of global searches isn’t a bad thing in isolation, certainly gives Ask sufficient clout to bring the issue back to the coal face.