Archive: May, 2006

Google Notebook – New Way to Spam?

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Posted by Richard Zwicky @ 9:02 am

I saw the posts around the Net about the Google Notebook Beta, and decided to check it out.

The concept behind Google notebook is simple; rather than making notes offline when researching something, use Google notebook. While you can already use your favorites / bookmarks to organize pages of note, Google Notebook takes it a step further. Instead of helping you track down just the pages you find information on, Notebook lets you add clippings of text, images and links from web pages – kind of like a virtual clipboard / notebook. Good idea.

There were not a lot of links to different areas available, but one of note was the Privacy Policy page. While reading it, a thought occured to me. Google Notebook offers spammers a new tool to manipulate results.