{"id":4810,"date":"2007-10-20T18:12:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T01:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/is-the-google-toolbar-spyware\/"},"modified":"2007-10-20T18:12:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T01:12:04","slug":"is-the-google-toolbar-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/is-the-google-toolbar-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Google Toolbar Spyware?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkinternetmarketing.com\/aboutChrisKata.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkinternetmarketing.com\/images\/headshots\/chris_thumb.jpg\" title=\"Christopher Kata\" alt=\"Christopher Kata\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"72\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This evening I was doing my regular reading and came across this older blog post suggesting that the Google toolbar is actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buyselllinks.com\/2007\/09\/17\/google-toolbar-is-spyware\/\" target=\"_blank\">great piece of spy-ware<\/a> for Google to snoop on Search Engine Optimizers!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The idea being that most people install the toolbar in order to easily see the PageRank of a website they are on. Many SEO&#8217;s do this &#8211; not the average person! OK, I guess we can lump webmasters and maybe developers into this group too. But, because of the PageRank, I agree that a good proportion of them would be SEO&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>What a better way to see where on the web search engine optimizers are going, which sites they are using, where they are buying links from, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never used the Google Toolbar in my life, and I have no plan to do so. Google sees too much of what we do on-line as it stands and I don&#8217;t want to give them too much more. Now that you know this you may want to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buyselllinks.com\/2007\/09\/17\/google-toolbar-is-spyware\/\" target=\"_blank\">entire post<\/a> &#8211; you just may decide to uninstall your Google Toolbar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This evening I was doing my regular reading and came across this older blog post suggesting that the Google toolbar is actually a great piece of spy-ware for Google to&hellip;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}