Nearly a year ago, YouTube rolled out their “ auto-generated channels ,” which are channels created to curate content based on relevant topics. Think of them as YouTube-created playlists. When they first appeared, auto-generated channels were strictly limited to the “Top YouTube Collections” tab and intended for broad topics such as “Snowboarding” (see image below)

Last week, Google introduced the Knowledge Graph .

Normally, if you’re on a mobile phone, you don’t want to be bothered with video ads. On top of that, most big networks are now going to bandwidth capping, even on their so-called ‘unlimited’ data plans

ReelSEO's own Mark Robertson spoke last October at the

So Google recently made a change to their search results that rolls in content from your Google Plus account and your Picasa account. The idea, to hear Google tell it, is to make the search results more personalized and more useful to each user... to help them find more meaningful and engaging content

You've probably seen the news that Google Search is now infused with more personalized content from your Google Plus and Picasa accounts--I say you've probably seen the news because it's everywhere. They're calling it Search Plus Your World

Any online marketing or SEO professional that dabbles in search work spends most of their time trying to help websites and other content claim a good ranking in the search results. We spend most of our time talking about that side of search as well. But if you're anything like me, you spend a lot of your day on the other side of the search equation, performing actual searches on Google or YouTube.

Let's face it, IPTV is on the rise and that means we can expect a flood of new services based around it.

I interviewed TripAdvisor’s Manager of Business & Trade Public Relations, Kevin Carter, who shared with me some of the newer activities their company has been doing to encourage online video marketing with lodging owners, and video participation with travelers. Kevin and I also share our tips on what types of videos travelers want to see, and how lodging businesses can do better online video marketing themselves.

So, this morning while in my hotel at SES Chicago, I received a tweet from a good friend, Tim Cross , that at least in the UK, Google has rolled out, or is testing, new Universal Search video thumbnails...