Google: Accounts & Profiles
Google updates ‘Ad Settings’ to allow users to turn off targeting signals
Google is also extending 'Why this ad?' notices to all services that display Google Ads, including YouTube, Google Play, Gmail, Maps and partner...
How to determine if you’ve been hit by negative SEO
Knowing you've been hit by a negative SEO campaign is crucial to fighting it. Contributor Joe Sinkwitz outlines the tools and steps you can take...
Google Updates User Ads Settings When Signed In Or Out
How to manage your ad settings on...
Google Consolidates Ad Preferences Managers, Now Called Google Ads Settings
Google has been rolling out updates to its Ads Preferences Manager, where users can adjust their account settings for personalized ad delivery,...
New: Save Your Google Search Settings & Take Them With You
That annoying thing when you do a Google search on your desktop computer, then you’re searching again on your laptop an hour later, and...
Journalists Get Their Profiles Featured In Google News … Their Google+ Profiles, That Is
Google News will soon start highlighting journalists’ profiles in Google News. But rather than highlighting the profiles from their...
How To Create Your Digital Footprint With Links
At the SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle last June, Google announced it was supporting the HTML5 “rel” attribute in anchor tags for...
The Bassackwardness Of Being Verified On Twitter, Facebook & Google+
As we await for Google+ to figure out however it wants to handle verified accounts, it’s worth reflecting how Google already has a...
Google — With Help From YouTube — Hits One Billion Visitors Before Facebook
We continue to hear about Facebook’s 700 million users, on the way to a billion worldwide. According to comScore Google is already there,...
Google’s “Me On The Web” Pushes Google Profiles — Take That, Facebook?
Google has launched a new “Me On The Web” section within its Google Dashboard area, which seems designed to push more people toward...
Reports: Google CEO Page Ties Bonuses To Social Success, Reorganizes Google Mgmt. Team
2011 bonuses for Google employees are reportedly being tied to how well the company fares in its efforts to integrate social elements across...
Hidden In Google Profiles: More Social Network Connections On The Way?
Is Google readying several new “connect an account” options in Google Profiles? Today, if you visit the connected accounts settings...
Google Preparing To Launch Social “Circles” — Or Maybe Not
There’s lots of buzzing and posting this morning based on a couple of tweets from Tim O’Reilly and Steve Case. They state that...
Google Redesigns Google Profiles
Google announced they have revamped the design for Google Profiles. Google said the new profile design is “even easier for you to control...
Google Me: Is It Really Named Emerald Sea Or Google +1?
The subject of “Google Me” has been discussed and debated and picked apart at length already. It’s already tired and the...
Privacy, Profit & The Emergence Of Google’s “Evil Twin”
There’s a funny and satirical 1989 British film called “How to Get Ahead in Advertising.” The movie focuses on an ad...
Angstro Buy, Shopping, Gaming Investments Point To Multi-Pronged Google Social Strategy
Last week Google acquired Angstro. The site has been described as a way to discover and organize information about individuals across various...
Would Gaming Fuel A Google Social Network?
Based on unnamed “sources,” yesterday TechCrunch reported that Google had “secretly” invested more than $100 million in...
Will “Google Me” Be A Worthy Facebook Challenger Or Will It Be DOA?
Let’s take “Google Me” seriously as a social networking site, successor to Orkut and overall Facebook challenger. As everyone...
Google Fined In Brazillian “Pedophile” Defamation Case Tied To Orkut
For the second time in the past few months Google has been punished by a court outside the US for content posted by users on one of its owned...
