Kommentare zu: Scary data

Von: Suchmaschinen, SEM & SEO - Juli 2008 - Inhouse SEO

Suchmaschinen, SEM & SEO - Juli 2008 - Inhouse SEO — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:58:35 +0000

[...] Zum Abschluss noch ein Bericht von Marcus aus der Sicht eines Blogbetreibers, der etwas über die Verwendung der Daten erschreckt: Scary data [...]

Von: Starsky

Starsky — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:21:46 +0000

I think they actually gather that data from the Google Toolbar. I use Analytics on two sites and have never agreed to that benchmarking thing (too scary ). However, the results I see in Trends for Websites are very similar to what you’ve observed here.

Cheers, Starsky

Von: Markus

Markus — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:16:13 +0000

I run a website where the “also visited websites” fit the clickouts quite well too. But i donÂ´t use Google Analytics on this website.

Von: Google Analytics Data Privacy, Google Trends, Google ad planner | Webanalyticsbook - Web Analytics

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:29:47 +0000

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Von: ThomasB

ThomasB — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:04:33 +0000

> since your data is the only data they can use here to get those results!

They still got the data from millions of Toolbar users that would show them the same.

Von: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:17:34 +0000

Nice catch and pretty sick! Well….I guess I am checking out my competition now.

Von: John Holloway

John Holloway — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:41:40 +0000

How can we be sure analytics’ benchmarking is to blame and not the google toolbar? Google trends for websites is a lot like alexa, and way more people use the Google toolbar than the alexa toolbar. Could it be the toolbar sharing the data?

Von: Randolf Jorberg

Randolf Jorberg — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:24:11 +0000

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=hamburg-lernt.de&sa=N
Also searched for
1. lebenslauf

Is an even better proof that they’re sharing alot of your data with others…

I’ll definitely disable data sharing in Analytics…

Von: Google Trends for Websites wirklich anonym? | Wowbagger

Google Trends for Websites wirklich anonym? | Wowbagger — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:47:51 +0000

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Von: Evert

Evert — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:19:47 +0000

Hi Marcus,

It’s really scary and I am sure that almost everybody opted-in on Google Analytics Data Sharing because of the benchmark feature in Analytics. It was very clever of Google to ask this permission and release the benchmark feature at the same time.
But you’re right we have to blame ourselves for this if they wrote it down when we agreed to share the data (are you sure they did at that point?)

Anyway it’s funny to see that in Holland I see only positive responses on the new feature. In Germany, which is much more “privacy focussed”, we call it scary. I think it is scary (although I am dutch )