Does google know too much about wordpress?
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I'm concerned about how big WP is getting and how smart google is when it comes to checking out these sites. WP says it powers almost 15% of the top million websites, so it's a big deal.
On my google webmaster tools panel I'm constantly getting information about how I should update my WP installations and specialized messages for wordpress.
Googlebot obviously knows its way around a WP installation and it might increasingly know what's up in terms of your marketing activities. The good thing about this is I don't think google penalizes as hard for 'appropriate' dupe content on a WP install, such as archives, category pages, tag pages, etc.
On the other hand, I wonder if there are any downsides to google knowing so much about someone's website. It's obviously not as much of a risk as using google analytics (which I use for most of my sites anyway), but WP is constantly developing new features that googlebot could eventually use to gain 'unwanted' insights into your site.
At this time I don't think it's a big deal at all, but I'm definitely keeping watch.
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