High off their success in bringing SOPA to its knees, assorted superficial social extremists–ASSEs for short–have decided their next target should be Google. Not because of privacy issues, click fraud, or something that actually matters. No, the focus is on how Google+ is being intricately tied to search results.

Over the past year, companies have: All of these warranted an apology of EPIC proportions, yet Johnson & Johnson may end up with the best public apology of the year for simply deciding to no longer produce its popular o.b. tampons line. As the LA Times explains…

Earlier this week Google redesigned the user interface of Google Reader. I hated it. Still, no one likes change, so I gave it a few days to see if I would get used to it.

As you may know, I’m also the CEO of social media monitoring tool Trackur. If you didn’t know that, then ta-da, I just sneaked my sponsored disclosure past you.

According to AllThingsD, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft unveiled plans to take on Google by joining forces to sell each other’s ad inventory. The plan is to try a collective approach to battling Google and others. The strategy is also designed to help them claw back some ad spending that has ended up in the hands of ad networks in recent years.