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This is a big deal. There are entire businesses built on this default (e.g. Compete.com's competitive keyword sniffing, or to some extent DDG's role as 'the goo
by taylorbuley 15y ago
This is a big deal. There are entire businesses built on this default (e.g. Compete.com's competitive keyword sniffing, or to some extent DDG's role as 'the good guy').
Seems like this will mean hugely asymmetrical information about search queries -- Google will still see all Google queries, but nobody else will.
This might also prevent even toolbars from seeing this stuff (remember when Google and Bing went tete-a-tete over that issue?).
- nkassis 15y agoSo all in all a good thing :)
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- slouch 15y agoAdwords customers still get the data: "If you choose to click on an ad appearing on our search results page, your browser will continue to send the relevant query over the network to enable advertisers to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns and to improve the ads and offers they present to you."
- ry0ohki 15y agoThey'll still get the paid keyword data, but it's going to be more difficult to figure out what keywords you need to pay for when you don't have a good picture of your organic traffic.
- robryan 15y agoYeah, i guess this could be a play to get more people to run more speculative campaigns to test the waters instead of letting organic do it.