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3:30 pm
January 24, 2012
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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Google has updated its TOS and Privacy Policy to apply across all Google products effective 3/1/2012. Here is something important for Blogger users to understand:
Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.
You can find more information about how Google uses and stores content in the privacy policy or additional terms for particular Services. If you submit feedback or suggestions about our Services, we may use your feedback or suggestions without obligation to you.
Motivation to move to self hosted Wordpress? Yep.
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5:05 pm
January 24, 2012
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7:37 pm
January 24, 2012
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OneCentAtatime
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They are one of the strongest proponents of free information. his change is to cover their bases against law suits at the most. Google is not going to take over your business.
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9:36 pm
January 24, 2012
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BeatingBroke
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I'm going to go ahead and play devil's advocate here. If you use Google's Webmaster Tools, you are essentially submitting your site, via sitemap, to a Google service. If I take that a bit further, by allowing Google's spider to crawl your site, you are submitting, by not restricting, your site to Google's Search service's index. I'm no lawyer, but I could argue both those points to some degree. Of course, the only way to avoid them is to 1) not use webmaster tools, and 2) to use your robots.txt to forbid the google spider from crawling your site (and in effect deindexing your site.). While the webmaster tools is a take it or leave it sort of service, I wouldn't recommend deindexing your site by forbidding the spiders…
The Google will Assimilate you!
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3:47 am
January 25, 2012
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jaicatalano
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4:02 am
January 25, 2012
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MoneyBeagle
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Glad I moved off just in time :)
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5:59 am
January 25, 2012
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Dave @ DebtBlackHole
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Beating Broke is right!
"Resistance is Futile! You will be assimilated. Your biological & technological distinctiveness will be added to our own." ~ The Borg (1987)
"Resistance is Futile! Your data will be assimilated. Your technological distinctiveness & intellectual property will be added to our own." ~ Google (2012)
I swear if I see Larry Page or Sergey Brin with any kind of prosthesis or cybernetic implant on their body in the next couple of years, I'm converting to Luddism!
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