# Google Analytics Data Sharing: Why Not Go All The Way? - Host: [techcrunch.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/techcrunch.com/) - Saved: March 5, 2008 (2008-03-06T05:04:39Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/01be2e9e949b/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/01be2e9e949b.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Google Blogoscoped (and the Google Analytics Blog) is reporting that Google is now giving users the opt-in option to share their Analytics data with other Google services, and/or in an anonymous, aggregated way in a new benchmarking service. This is certainly useful for some companies - particularly since Google is only making new services based on this data available to users whove opted in: only users who have opted to share their sites data with Google may use these new or improved services. A screen shot of the options is above - but Ive added my own fantasy third option in addition to the first two that Google announced today. What I want to see is a flat out option for people to share some or all of their Analytics data publicly, without restriction and without anonymitiy. Were seeing startups send us this data more and more often to counter under-counting in Comscore, Alexa and other services. They say theyre more than happy to see us publish the data, so readers will understand exactly how well theyre doing. A lot of companies want this data to be public. Transparency is a good way to gain the trust of the community, and I think Google would be surprised to see how many customers would be perfectly willing to share their analytics data publicly. The logistics of the sharing is less important - it could be done via a widget or an API, or a variety of other methods. But I believe the demand is there. All Google has to do is flip a switch. Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because its time for you to find a new Job2.0 ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Bloglines Suffers Major Outage](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/620eaad65f70/) (techcrunch.com, February 25, 2008) - [March 6th Date Set for Apples iPhone Software Roadmap Event](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a291d5f3fd11/) (techcrunch.com, February 27, 2008) - [Kevin Rose Cant Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Cant Wait To Speak With a Human](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3269d5c30998/) (techcrunch.com, March 2, 2008) - [SeaDragon In Silverlight: The Coolest Bit From Mix Keynote One](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a557639235a5/) (techcrunch.com, March 5, 2008) - [WeGames 19 Year Old Founder Raises $3 million Financing](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/988e8b1a8311/) (techcrunch.com, March 12, 2008) ## Saved the same week - [SeaDragon In Silverlight: The Coolest Bit From Mix Keynote One](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a557639235a5/) (techcrunch.com, March 5, 2008) - [EU To Clear Google-DoubleClick on Tuesday, Google Into Display](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3853823a4b0d/) (businessinsider.com, March 5, 2008) - [Bush's HHH](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/515ccc977a96/) (dailykos.com, March 5, 2008) - [One more step](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/db98dbfb5f3c/) (googlereader.blogspot.com, March 5, 2008) - [Alex King: Fixing a MySQL Character Encoding Mismatch](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8a370f73d1a3/) (alexking.org, March 6, 2008) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://techcrunch.com/2008/03/05/google-analytics-data-sharing-why-not-go-all-the-way/