Google announced that it is updating its privacy policies to make them simpler. They don't appear to have any changes involving CEO Eric Schmidt driving around neighborhoods in an ice cream truck, luckily.

Google isn't actually changing any of its privacy practices. It's just trying to make the language more understandable. Google Associate General Counsel Mike Yang outlines the updates:

1. Most of our products and services are covered by our main Google Privacy Policy. Some, however, also have their own supplementary individual policies. Since there is a lot of repetition, we are deleting 12 of these product-specific policies. These changes are also in line with the way information is used between certain products—for example, since contacts are shared between services like...

This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question, just write a comment below.

Conferences Show SEO Going Mainstream, Get on Board for Less was originally published on BruceClay.com, an SEO services and SEO tools [View Full Article]

In a recent survey about holiday shopping, 64% of the people said theyll be spending less on everyone this holiday season, so that means marketers will have to work a little harder to make sure its their company that gets the cash and not their competitor. The trick is paying attention to how and why people are spending and customizing your marketing efforts to match.