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Consumer Watchdog Uses Google Analytics to Track User Behavior…Wait, What?
Yesterday I posted about a video being shown on a jumbotron in Times Square that showed Google CEO Eric Schmidt as a privacy peeping Tom; gathering information from unsuspecting children as he offered them “free” ice cream in his Google ice cream truck. Well Business Insider made an interesting discover today that calls out Consumer [...]
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Consumer Watchdog Uses Google Analytics to Track User Behavior…Wait, What?Google Brings“Search-to-Store” to the Mobile Web
Google Maps for Mobile has a new feature that could help you get exactly where you want to be. Earlier this summer they introduced Expendable Map Ads that appeared in both applications and mobile web. This app provided a banner from paid advertisers that once clicked on, a user would see a map with options [...]
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Google Brings “Search-to-Store” to the Mobile WebGoogle Makes Changes to Their Privacy Policy That We Can All (Almost) Understand
Google has decided to give it’s privacy policy a little bit of a makeover. According to the Google Blog they are not changing any policies, just combining some of its more redundant product-specific policies and making their main policy a bit easier for users to understand. Some of the policies to get combined with each [...]
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Google Makes Changes to Their Privacy Policy That We Can All (Almost) UnderstandReddit Prospers From Digg v4 Debacle
Since the release of the newest version of Digg, v4, launched last week, the less-than-warm reception has caused a massive influx of traffic to their rival – Redditt. Launched less than a year after Digg, Redditt hasn’t been as popular, but they did have very loyal users. However, starting Sunday night, the four-person team has [...]
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Reddit Prospers From Digg v4 DebacleGoogle Opens Local Merchant Inventory Feature to All
In June Google started beta testing it’s Local Shopping inventory feature which allows merchants to submit a list of products that they currently have in stock so that users can easily locate these goods when performing a search. They have since received a lot of positive feedback from searchers and have an influx of retailers [...]
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Google Opens Local Merchant Inventory Feature to AllASAP Utilities– SEO and Productivity Addin for Excel
I’ve said it many times and I’ll say this again: Excel if the ultimate SEO tool that can help you in any task (if you know how to use it right). I have already shared the huge collection of Excel tips and tricks for SEOs and web marketers – that post helped me to discover [...]
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ASAP Utilities – SEO and Productivity Addin for ExcelCEO Eric Schmidt Creepily Portrayed in Consumer Watchdog’s New Anti-Google Ad
On a 540-square-foot jumbotron in Times Square an ad by Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, is playing 36 times a day. The subject of this giant advertisement? Google’s invasion of the public’s privacy. The video portrays Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt as the creepy driver of an ice cream trunk, branded with the Google [...]
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CEO Eric Schmidt Creepily Portrayed in Consumer Watchdog’s New Anti-Google AdYahoo Search Gives Users Geographically Relevant Suggestions
Yahoo Search blog announced today that it is introducing a new Search Assist that is enhanced with the ability to provide users with geographically-closer suggestions as you are typing. This new feature is suppose to help searchers save a little time while typing their query because Search Assist will take into account the location you [...]
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Yahoo Search Gives Users Geographically Relevant SuggestionsSVG Files and Documents Are Now Indexed by Google
Google has announced that they are now going to be indexing SVG documents and files. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an XML-based graphics format specifically for vector graphic, both dynamic and static and graphics can be made and edited in any text editor since they are XML files. You can, however, block your SVG files [...]
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SVG Files and Documents Are Now Indexed by GoogleHappy 2nd Birthday, Google Chrome!
Two years ago, Google launched Google Chrome – a browser based around the open-source program Chromium. Today, the latest version of the browser was released making it the sixth version to date. Google reports that today Chrome is now three times faster than when it was released in 2008 when it comes to JavaScript performance. [...]
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Happy 2nd Birthday, Google Chrome!
