The TMO Blog

Google Becoming More Secure On All Sites

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Google made their main site (Google.com) more secure a few months back by adding SSL security to all searches inside of personal accounts. Well now they're stepping it up a level further and adding SSL search to all of their other sites. If…

Google Is Tracking You More – You Can’t Opt Out? You Can

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Google announced yesterday that they'll be changing how they track users across all of their different sites, including YouTube, Gmail, and the big G's search engine. There is some concern from various places (including the Washington Post)…

January 18th Blackout – SOPA, PIPA, What’s It All Mean?

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If you haven't heard yet, some major, major sites are taking action to protest two major acts that are being run through congress. SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) in the House and PIPA (Protect IP Act) in the Senate are both set up to change the…

Bad Social Media Lessons from Paul Christoforo

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So Paul Christoforo and Ocean Marketing have gone viral.  But even though they say bad marketing is good marketing, I think this particular instance is an example of bad marketing being bad marketing. It appears that Paul had a lovely…

Google’s “Best Guess” – Google Guessing? Likely A Good Guess

As I mentioned before, Google Gaydar was a "feature" that came from the search engine that wasn't announced, but did catch the attention of many when it was noticed.  This feature is part of a new adjustment to Google's services, called by…

Google Gaydar Now Active

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Yes, that title is correct.  Google has not made any announcement that I've heard about regarding this, but you can actually type a query into the search engine to find out what Google's "gaydar" has determined. Here's my test of the latest…

Google’s Les Paul Logo/Theme

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So today Google put up a Les Paul theme for their new logo.  And it's interactive!  I'm a guitarist, so I played with it a bit and found out this about it.  All the "strings" are corded so that the notes go up as you play downwards.  The…

7 Internet Marketing Mistakes

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Sometimes when working on doing solid internet marketing, excessive zeal can backfire. Here are 7 mistakes in internet marketing you can make if you're not careful.

April Fool’s Day – YouTube 1911

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It's April Fool's Day! So everything's very serious, of course. Found some interesting new developments from Google, though.