Règles de confidentialité de Google Mobile. Robots. Google Profiles Now Indexable in Search Engines. Call them Google versions of business cards, Geocities 2.0 or call them what you will, I consider Google Profiles to be the building block to the foundation of Google’s social map in the interactive Internet world, weaving basic user information which the user chooses to share within Google results; whether that info be LinkedIn style business information or family & friend style photo sharing. Google Profiles, whatever they will morph into, are now being indexed by search engines, as Google has lifted the noindex style command from their robots.txt files, and instituted a new form of sitemaps.xml for the profiles which deem them crawlable by the engines.Garett Rogers writes : Just about a half hour ago, Google added a new line into their robots.txt file which makes all those profiles (or at least 50,000 of them) crawlable by search engines.
The new entry tells search engines to use “ as a sitemap. Google Makes User Profiles Indexable at Gstatic. The freedom to be who you want to be… Posted by Alma Whitten, Director of Privacy, Product and Engineering Peter Steiner’s iconic “on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” cartoon may have been drawn in jest--but his point was deadly serious, as recent events in the Middle East and North Africa have shown.
In reality, as the web has developed--with users anywhere able to post a blog, share photos with friends and family or “broadcast” events they witness online--the issue of identity has become increasingly important. So, we’ve been thinking about the different ways people choose to identify themselves (or not) when they’re using Google--in particular how identification can be helpful or even necessary for certain services, while optional or unnecessary for others. Attribution can be very important, but pseudonyms and anonymity are also an established part of many cultures -- for good reason.
When it comes to Google services, we support three types of use: unidentified, pseudonymous and identified. Unidentified. FAQ relative à la confidentialité – Centre de confidentialité. How does Google protect my privacy? Why does Google store search engine logs data? Why are search engine logs kept before being anonymized? How can I remove information about myself from Google’s search results? Does Google use cookies? What happens when different privacy laws in different countries conflict? How often are you asked by governments to provide data on users? How can I contact Google if I have a privacy question or complaint?
At Google, we are keenly aware of the trust our users place in us, and our responsibility to protect their privacy. We store this data for a number of reasons. We strike a reasonable balance between the competing pressures we face, such as the privacy of our users, the security of our systems and the need for innovation. Like all search engines, Google is a reflection of the content and information publicly available on the web. We’ve been told most users don’t want to re-set their computers every time they log on.