By now you’ve most assuredly read about the Google Chrome fiasco. You know that Google threw Essence, their video ad agency, under the proverbial bus

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Not All Spam Deserves The Death Penalty

I originally intended to skip this column this week, instead replacing it with a year-end “best viral videos” round up that would cover all of the last 52 weeks in hilarious viral action. However, a funny thing happened throughout the week that I should have expected: I kept finding awesome new viral videos that I wanted to share

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The Week’s Best Viral Videos & Video Marketing Lessons – New Years Edition

Here are some articles we found after the big GA announcement about referral data from searches not being available from those logged in to Google.

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Article Recap on the Google Analytics “Secure” Change

Everyone in the tech field has a slightly different idea of where search engines should go from here. Computer scientist Oren Etzioni, however, has a particularly intriguing – though perhaps implausible – idea. He calls it “natural language questions and answers.” Etzioni’s Search Engine Vision Etzioni is a computer scientist at the University of Washington

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Real-Language Q&A: The Next Generation of Search?

YouTube has been good to a lot of amateur filmmakers and video creators. It’s given many of them a distribution platform, social and marketing tools, monetization options, legions of fans, and even serious profit. But apparently… there’s still a lot that YouTube can’t do for video stars.

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Blip.tv Partners With The Collective To Bring YouTube Stars More Exposure

paidContent has long led the charge in covering, as they say, “the economics of digital content.” This year they’re hosting another conference event, called paidContent 2011 , filled with round-table discussions, Q&A’s, and keynote speakers from some of the web’s leading content creators like Huffington Post, Gawker, and NBC Universal Entertainment. And you can be a part of it by registering today with our ReelSEO media partner discount code.

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paidContent 2011: Learn From An Impressive Lineup Of Digital Goods Experts

For some reason, people who get their hands on the latest and greatest technology automatically assume that it’s invulnerable to the threats that assailed its predecessors. They rest easily, knowing that there’s no way that their personal data could be filched, or their hardware could be destroyed, or a virus could start the zombie apocalypse using their tablet. Luckily, every so often, a highly publicized and devastating bit of malware like Geinimi crops up — reminding people that they still need to be smart about how they use their modern day devices

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Geinimi: The Trojan that Eats Android Phones

While Bing has been able to spread its influence to the Yahoo! U.S.

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Bing’s National Tailgating Competition Targets Sports Lovers

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell I interviewed a spokesperson from Amazon.com’s new online business, Amazon Studios to learn about the program’s new business model for discovering and paying new filmmaking talent with an eye on making big motion pictures. But do they plan to expand beyond feature length-films, and offer these same business opportunities and incentives to web-based video producers as well?

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Amazon Goes Hollywood With Amazon Studios – Filmmakers And Screenwriters Wanted

Instead of just bringing up individual post containing specific keywords used in searches made by Google users, there is now a filter that brings up entire blogs pertaining to terms that you have searched for. This new blog-finding filter is not a part of the Blog Search feature, it is on the Google homepage; users only need to click on the blog option on the left-side menu and then on the bottom they will see a choice for either posts or homepages and voila! You now have the results for whole blogs dealing with whatever it is you are looking for.

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Google Adds Blog-Finding Filter