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A while ago, I wrote a blog on my love and hate relationship with Google<\/a> and my fear of its information power. I just came across this blog on Google no longer trusted by TRUSTe<\/a>. I visited TRUSTe’s website<\/a> and verified that Google is indeed not on TRUSTe’s list of trusted organizations any more. That makes you wonder…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while ago, I wrote a blog on my love and hate relationship with Google and my fear of its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27],"tags":[101,119,120],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet_marketing","category-reality_check","tag-ethics","tag-google","tag-privacy","post-archive"],"yoast_head":"\nGoogle not trusted? | Ping! >> Loyalty Science in Practice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/17\/google-not-trusted\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google not trusted? | Ping! >> Loyalty Science in Practice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A while ago, I wrote a blog on my love and hate relationship with Google and my fear of its...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/17\/google-not-trusted\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ping! >> Loyalty Science in Practice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-02-17T21:12:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-03-17T08:18:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Yuping Liu-Thompkins\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@PingTweets\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PingTweets\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Yuping Liu-Thompkins\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/17\/google-not-trusted\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/17\/google-not-trusted\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Yuping Liu-Thompkins\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/9157036ee1e42aeb9ed3b505139cdd32\"},\"headline\":\"Google not trusted?\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-02-17T21:12:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-03-17T08:18:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/17\/google-not-trusted\/\"},\"wordCount\":63,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/9157036ee1e42aeb9ed3b505139cdd32\"},\"keywords\":[\"ethics\",\"Google\",\"privacy\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Internet Marketing\",\"Reality Check\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/17\/google-not-trusted\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/17\/google-not-trusted\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.yupingliu.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/17\/google-not-trusted\/\",\"name\":\"Google not trusted? 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