{"id":4657,"date":"2008-03-11T14:04:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T19:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/blog\/google-completes-acquisition-of-doubleclick\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T19:04:16","slug":"google-completes-acquisition-of-doubleclick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/blog\/google-completes-acquisition-of-doubleclick\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Completes Acquisition of DoubleClick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Google has completed the acquisition of DoubleClick!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s official. It&#8217;s finally done. <a href=\"http:\/\/adwords.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/google-closes-doubleclick-acquisition.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_new\">Google now owns DoubleClick<\/a>! With that let&#8217;s just hope they don&#8217;t suddenly turn evil and use all of our personal data they now have from DoubleClick against us!<\/p>\n<p>If you have an opinion on this please chime in. I&#8217;d love to hear it. Personall, I think it&#8217;s a bad idea for advertisers. What do you think?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m actually adding a bit more to this post as this just occurred to me. Since Google now owns DoubleClick and DoubleClick is tracking all user behaviour through PayPal &#8211; does that not give Google Checkout an unfair advantage over PayPal? Perhaps PayPal will stop using DoubleClick now &#8211; but the historical data is now in Googles hands!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think about that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google has completed the acquisition of DoubleClick! It&#8217;s official. It&#8217;s finally done. Google now owns DoubleClick! With that let&#8217;s just hope they don&#8217;t suddenly turn evil and use all of&hellip;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[892],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-en-us-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}