Google has released sidewiki which is supposed to be used as a platform to post comments related to the websites that the google toolbar user is using. Sidewiki which is a add-on for fire fox and internet explorer browsers has caused many to run the other way from google.

Although sidewiki was created with good intentions, we live in a world where not everybody is honest and some live to ruin others lives. This is one huge mistake google left out when they had discussions on creating such an application.

There has been many that have been building blogs and making blog post about this new tool and just how evil it really is. The facts are many can and already have posted bad comments on others sites for the sole purpose to tarnish that sites reputation.

This is not the only problem though because it can get a great deal worse than just someone posting a bad comment. There are so many things that can be done to not only hurt the site in question but actually hurt the sites owners. Competition can start posting links in sdewiki on your websites leading your visitors away. Spammers can start posting affiliate links left and right and they will show in sidewiki beside your website.

What happens when you have a family website and someone starts posting adult ads and links showing along side your website ? The problem here is that you have no control over these comments and you can not remove them. Sure there is a report link but let’s face facts, there is no way for google to be able to handle millions of reports everyday. This is also assuming you know where to find the links because sidewiki does not work per website or domain name but actually works per page.

Can you honestly monitor 1,000’s of pages if you have a large website or a large blog ? Where are you going to find the time to even monitor all these pages and report the comments ? Then if you do actually be able to monitor and report them, there is no promise google will remove them.

You see there are so many ways this tool can be used for evil that it has outraged many webmasters and you should be outraged right now also. Google is taking over your website and forcing you to have comments on your site, like it or not.

Some have tried to create a solution using javascript to block comments from being seen but as a website developer of over 15 years I can tell you know those solutions do not stop comments from being seen. I have seen these solutions and they are nothing more then free open source code pulled from websites that have snippets of javascript.