We all know that Google did a good job on collecting user data in order to improve user search experience, I am really appreciated their work. But from point of view of a company who has large user data, there is a big concern that Google can somehow collect these data. Is Google really instrusive to other companys’ user data?  Or we are just worried too much.

Is google intrusive to user data?

Recently, I was trying to convince one of my clients to implement Google Analytics code as an additional tracking solution to the existing third-party tracking application, as I was not familiar with that third-party application and I was really keen to use Google Analytics for analysing user search behavior accurately.

But their director of IT was very cautious about Google because he read something negative (I don’t know what it is) about Google in terms of data collecting and hence he felt Google is intrusive to precious user data of the company (few millions).

I did a bit of research on searching anything negative about Google data collecting via Bing.com but didn’t find what I was looking for. So I posted this question on Linkedin, here is the original copy:

Is Google moving out of China? This won’t be a good news for SEOers China, as Baidu.com will dominate the entire search market. I read this on a random SEO blog which I cannot remember the name, a Chinese internet expert whose name is Yanping Hu posted “Google is moving out of China, all the servers are relocating” on sina microblog (similar to twitter) and he ensured what he said is truth. Soon, Google PR denied this information as expected.

Here is the screenshot of his message:

Translation here:

True message: Google starts to move out of China, all the servers in China are relocating

If this news is true, why would Google give up Chinese market? Let’s go back to the history and reveal the story between Google and Baidu (Baidu is the largest search engine is China)