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Google's information gathering techniques
- paul 18y agoVery misleading. Click tracking is a very useful quality signal for search engines. Also, to my knowledge, Google doesn't sell any data -- they're very paranoid about that kind of thing (if you don't believe me, try buying data from them) The rest of it is about efficiency, not sneakiness. Putting redirects on the links is not only annoying, but it slows things down by forcing your browser to do additional redirects. (and little slowdowns make a big difference) The same thing goes for compressing the JS, etc.
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- mrkurt 18y agoWell that's awfully shrill. Attaching event handlers when the page is ready is by far the cleanest way to do javascript. Plus, it's the most downlevel browser friendly. Google's javascript is compressed for size, not obfuscated. It ends up looking the same, but the intent is different. That dude should just browse with no javascript enabled.