Celebrity Special: Search Highlights And Oscar Clips

Considering what's going on in the world - financial collapses, mine disasters, North Korean missile announcements - celebrity-related matters may be of less importance than ever.  But they're certainly holding people's interest - perhaps we can all use the distraction - and Hitwise and YouTube recently acknowledged the issue.

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Defamer Now Part of Gawker

At the end of 2008, it was announced that Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports was acquiring Consumerist.com from Nick Denton's Gawker Media. Gawker has now dropped its Defamer.com site as its own entity and rolled it into Gawker.com as the site's "column from Hollywood."

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Landing Pages: Think Simple, Think Specific

It took a long time for big companies to enter the world of search marketing, and once they did there was sudden fierce competition for the moms and pops out there eking it out online. Now, as then, those same moms and pops can outmaneuver the big boys by capitalizing on bigger company weaknesses. Today’s advantage: landing pages.

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Vint Cerf Talks Up Future of the Internet

The Internet has come a long way in 30 years, but it is still very much in its infancy. Vint Cerf, Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, who in a former life was one of the principle minds behind what we know as the Internet today, is looking far beyond just the next thirty years. He’s thinking about the next thousand years.

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How to Build Display Ads with Google

Google has crafted several new videos to help users better understand the process of creating display ads using Google AdWords. They've had two videos on the process since October, but have now released four more. The first one is simply on accessing the feature in AdWords in the first place:

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