Google Launches Web Traffic Analysis Service

segphault writes to pass along that Ars Technica has an interesting article about the recently released Google Analytics. Analytics is Google's new traffic analysis service that helps you to know everything from "how your visitors found you [to] how they interact with your site." Analytics is also built to integrate with AdWords if you are already utilizing that service.

Comments

Privacy?

[maelstrom]

So now Google can read my e-mail, track my searches, track my social network, and track which websites I go to with one cookie? All of these were opt-in until this one. Interesting...

What about google-behaviourpersonality analysis

[ACORN_USER]

I remember a company named Search Space, a couple of years ago. I was talking to someone who worked there and they were firing all sorts of random data into neural nets and all sorts of hybrid emergent learning engines. The goal - well it was to detect and learn patterns of user behaviour, categorising these into good/bad actions. You wonder though, with so much info out there on your search habits, perhaps we'd be able to do the same thing as hand-writing analysis. Let a guy google for ten minutes and then assess his nature.

User:Bill Gates
Assessment:You are a power hungry, closed minded, egotistical b@stard. You ability to view the world without glasses which highlight you as the centre of all things is impaired. You goal is to dominate the world with substandard products. If it weren't for the legality of such things, you'd bomb the houses of every open source developer on the planet. You are also keen on donkies and young monkies dressed in bondage ware.