If you have ever clicked in to see a website and noticed that by you launch/start button you notice your browser says that you are waiting for some program to start up from google. If you have ever said ” Hmmm should I be scared?”
If you are looking for a simple answer,
It’s a program you link with code on your website. The code in your website sends information to google. Th information gathered is really thorough. Types of data gathered are about the people surfing your website, such as point of origin, screen resolution, operating system, Exact search query, time on site, exit location.
For me some of this information is pretty useful. It tells me what size pictures I can put on my site to please the common public, what browser and operating system is my target to please. What content people where looking for and if I have exactly what they want or should I cover that content also or should I give a link to someone who does.
Not to be super conspiracy filled, but.
Um, that’s to much info about me. I am not comfortable with that much data. I really wouldn’t want the guy’s on the adopt a pet, website seeing that I whent straight to their site from an athlete’s foot site, and when I left I whent to a site about people who liked to eat with their feet.
Why is it that the google urchin gathers personal info about us, kinda adware info. I mean really isn’t it for advertisement purposes….. why doesn’t my spybot ,asquared and addaware find it? it is a js file so it does have beef.
Other than the issue with my personal self not liking the monitoring, I love being able to tweak my site with the info I gather.