Re: Google's new Opt-In Data Sharing initiative
Google Analytics is basically a promotional tool... they offer it for free hoping that you'll pay for other services like AdWords.
I think incrediblehelp has is right - it will be worth sharing your data if it helps you increase business. That being said, if it's no help at all, then what's the point.
Here's the other thing... how do we know if Google wasn't (or still is) just taking our data anyways, regardless of our decision to give it to them. With all of their secret data centers, it's possible that they've been looking at our data all along...
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