Facebook Directs Companies, Celebs To Preferred Developers

As you read this, the inboxes of 14 Facebook developers may be reaching the breaking point.  You see, Facebook's decided to launch something it calls the Preferred Developer Consultant Program, and these lucky developers are the first to receive the social network's official endorsements.

The Most Searched For Terms of 2009

Experian Hitwise announced that it has found Facebook to be the top search term overall for the year 2009 after analyzing the top 300 search terms for the year. This is the first year Facebook has been the top search term, and it accounted for 0.67% of all searches, according to the research firm. Variations of the term Facebook actually accounted for four of the…

Nielsen Also Puts Bing Up In November

Earlier today, we relayed comScore's figures for the search market during November 2009.  Now, Nielsen's statistics covering the same timespan have been made public, and although both companies agree that Bing did well, a lot of the other details differ. Whereas comScore believes Google gained a bit of ground on a month-over-month basis, Nielsen indicated that the search giant lost some - 0.7 percent since…

Hulu Adds New Options to the Queue

Popular online video destination Hulu has added a new default view for the user's queue. The new view groups all videos within the queue by show. In the past, users could only sort everything by show by clicking on the title and information column. "As we've added more content and as users' queues have grown in size, grouping by show as a default was a…