LAST EDITED ON Aug-03-10 AT 09:55 PM (PST)
 
NOTE: Below is a post I made almost 5 years ago. I've pulled it from the archives from another DomBom forum.

It's good to go back once in a while and revisit old topics...

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LAST EDITED ON Oct-19-05 AT 00:08 AM (PST)

A while back I theorized about "People Rank"...I think the next "rank" Google will use is "You Rank", as in, "Who the hell are YOU?!?"

I think it's time, or past time, that we start getting rid of our G oo gle bars. Between your bar and your adsense account, you're telling google much more than you should.

Google bar now has a "spell check" for input forms, which is fine and dandy, but it also means they can easily be tracking everything you type into every form, connecting your Adsense account to everything you type into a web form. Not good, not good at all.

With all the page makers and dedoopers, Google will HAVE TO REACT, they have no choice, and instead of tracking web pages, I believe it will soon be easier, and more effecient, for Google to track a high number of webmasters.

Be very hestitant to mix affiliate IDS. It's the money trail that all the engines will be forced to follow. You need to start seperating affiliate programs using different whois, IPs, etc.

The Original Domboms were all about mixing and matching affiliate programs. I don't think this will be wise in the future.

I believe people are creatures of habit, and once a spammer, it is very likely that that person will be a spammer in the future, and if I wanted to really stop SE spam, I'd follow the money trail, trying to "cross-reference" any affiliate numbers that I could...If I banned one of your sites and I can tie you to another, I may just penalize your new site for no other reason than it is YOU.

The question now becomes, if you accept that google can track you from adsense and the bar, and google's main mission right now isn't search but data mining, why wouldn't they track you and factor this into their Algo?