If the latest edition of the Google Toolbar doesn’t convince you that the Goolge Patent of 2005 was more than smoke and mirrors I don’t know what will. In section 46 they mention using user data such as bookmarks, and incorporating it into the ranking algo. The theory consisting of two parts, firstly people are going to bookmark sites they feel have value. Secondly large scale distributed bookmark forgery while not impossible would be difficult.
So how is Google gaining access to these bookmarks? In the latest toolbar edition you sign into Google and import your bookmarks which allows you to have access to them from any location (home, school, work, friends house etc). Good for the user and good for Google. Now I will admit I am somewhat concerned they actually rolled this plan out considering the interest the DOJ has with Google’s search data. However I suspect this plan was put into motion long before the DOJ request was issued. I suspect it will be years before anyone in the government actually gets a clue that anyone is actually aggregating bookmark data and that it might be of value. So if you’re comfortable with Google or the US Government having all of this data about and handing it to them on a silver platter be sure to download and install it.
Now if there’s an enterprising person or two reading who like to get in on the ground floor of a developing business opportunity I’d suggest you start buying up old PC’s and start build a computer network for visiting bookmarks. Use the machines to log into accounts like Earthlink and AOL so you can mingle with the great unwashed masses behind big proxy farms. Last time I checked you were able to log into multiple screen names under one account on AOL. Using a browser with the Google toolbar installed run a script to visit the bookmarked websites, and visit a few pages. For a nominal monthly service charge you will visit pages on peoples websites. Offered tiered services for more pages per websites, multiple visits per day, and multiple sites.
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