Every Friday I like to share some of the week’s biggest viral video hits with you.  I also like deconstructing them, trying to put our finger on what it was about each video that hit the viewing public just right enough to make them share it like mad.  Perhaps we can learn and hone our

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Viral Video Lessons Round Up – Rockets, Collaborations, & Camera Glitches

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 Watchdog for their hypocrisy. What did they do that is hypocritical you may ask

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Consumer Watchdog Uses Google Analytics to Track User Behavior…Wait, What?

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 to call the business or get directions to it.

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Google Brings “Search-to-Store” to the Mobile Web

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.

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Google Makes Changes to Their Privacy Policy That We Can All (Almost) Understand

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

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Reddit Prospers From Digg v4 Debacle

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 that want to participate. With all that said, they announced on Wednesday that they were opening up their documentation to potentially become a part of the listings to the public

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Google Opens Local Merchant Inventory Feature to All

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 another awesome tool I was hugely impressed by

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ASAP Utilities – SEO and Productivity Addin for Excel

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.

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CEO Eric Schmidt Creepily Portrayed in Consumer Watchdog’s New Anti-Google Ad

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 are searching from. The office where I work is located in the Citrus Park/Carrollwood area of Tampa, Florida so I begun conducting a search of the closest mall – Citrus Park Town Center

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Yahoo Search Gives Users Geographically Relevant Suggestions

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 from being indexed by using the Robots Exclusion Protocol .

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SVG Files and Documents Are Now Indexed by Google