Josh Notes

What Is Google Sidewiki?

First there was framejacking. Framejacking is what happens when another website tries to frame your content on their own website/URL by putting it in a frame. Prominent framejacking websites include About.com, Stumbleupon (su.pr) and Hootsuite (ow.ly). Framejacking is a violation of a user's browser because it hijacks the user's address bar and it violates your website because it hijacks your URLs. Framejacking is annoying, but individual websites can defend against framejacking by popping out of the HTML frames with JavaScript.

Now there is GOOGjacking (not to be confused with Googlejacking, which is the hijacking of SERPs through 302 redirects). GOOGjacking is when Google's new Sidewiki product puts Google's proprietary commenting system on top of your website without your permission, with no way for you to opt out.