Googles new free service both delight and scare the shit out of me. They have managed to get people to sign up their mail at GMail, letting Google index all their emails. And now with Google Analytics we are going to give them every detail on how we surf? So George Orwell was wrong, you don’t need an totalitarian society to have full control of peoples life’s. We are in-fact giving them that for free. We write our thoughts and events, and then hands the information over to a company for them to go trough and index and generate patterns. And as long as the company is “not evil” it’s apparently ok. Makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.
But not enough to stop me from signing up. I have lot of principles I live by, and one of them is to break the other principles I live by. Makes it easier.
So I signed up, put the javascript code and got an confirmation on the setup page that all was ok, and my statistics should show up within 12 hours. As of now I have waited 25 hours. I would think that hey have a lot more success of people signing up. Theres already a WordPress plugin to make it easy to use. My guess there will be a big update of their server farm that handles the analytic part.
But I’m really looking forward to get the new statistics to compare to my current systems.
Update: I finally got my statistics. And it looks very comprehensive.
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