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09-29-2009, 11:18 PM
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| Squidoo Geek Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Illinois, USA
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|  Technical Questions about Google SideWiki?
1) Can it edit the content of your website? Say I have text that reads, "Please help support Big Cat Rescue!" Will I suddenly wake up and find, "Big Cat Rescue is ****!" 2) If I password-protect my forums and comment pages, will that help stop this thing? |
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09-29-2009, 11:57 PM
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| I have a lame list. War Room Member  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: One Second into the Future
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| Re: Technical Questions about Google SideWiki? Quote:
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09-30-2009, 12:47 AM
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| Re: Technical Questions about Google SideWiki?
Yeah, anybody can leave wilfully incriminating wrong and misleading comments, annotations and feedback about your website in the sidewiki. That includes competitors. And then anybody can see them with the google toolbar feature turned on. Then I think if you complain to google about a particularly incriminating piece then they will manuallyr eview and have it removed.
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09-30-2009, 01:58 AM
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| Student of Marketing... War Room Member  Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Adelaide,South Australia
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| Re: Technical Questions about Google SideWiki? Quote:
I've been worried about this before it was even discovered by the above member. If google is scraping and rehosting a sites content,.. imagine the newbies to the internet that can't distinguish between a proper trusted url and googles fake sidewiki url? Does this mean G will be recording passwords,to sites that aren't google products? i.e. joe blows membership site. So then if that is the case,it means no site is secure anymore. ..and if google records the passwords or other significant data previously unaccessable to them,they can then gain access. Banks have a hard enough time educating people to not believe email banking fakes/fraud emails. So now when joe blow thinks he is accessing his net banking(and doesnt check the url) his details could be recorded by google. | |
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09-30-2009, 03:08 AM
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| Will code for food War Room Member  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bucharest, Romania
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| Re: Technical Questions about Google SideWiki?
Google doesn't record the passwords to your sites, it doesn't have to. It records the address bar of the page and any comment users left to that page. Later on, when a user that has the password and toolbar installed views that page, the toolbar recognizes it and says "a-ha. I have a comment or two about this... Here they are." and it shows the comments on the left side of your page. |
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