Making Sense of Google’s New Privacy Policy

As you may have heard, Google is updating it’s privacy policy on March 1st, 2012.  So I thought I’d take a look at it and see just what’s changing, how it affects us, and what we can do (if anything). Essentially what Google is doing is consolidating over 60 separate privacy policies into one which [...]

Force Google to Notice You

Back in mid-to-late 2010, I published a blog post that explained in detail about rel=author.  Essentially, it’s an easy way for users to see your head shot when they do a search in Google. Here’s an example.  All I’ve done here is a search on “google rankings drop” and in this screenshot alone, there are [...]

Google Hangouts and Video Conferencing

With Google+ now open to everyone (over 18 that is), you might be wondering just exactly how to use some of the features that are available to you. Today we’re going to talk about Google Hangouts – which is also sometimes referred to as “video conferencing”; either way, they’re used for the same purpose; to [...]