by Vera H-C Chan Blockbusters may monopolize the box-office, but summer has always been a time of memorable comedies. This time around, funnymen are packed cheek to funnybone in the multiplexâ?" especially this weekend with a comic throwdown between the " Land of the Lost "" and " The Hangover ." Plus, they're dropping literaly dropping everywhere to get attention for their brand of yuks.  This season especially looks like a generational hand-off period,

Posted by great scott! In this interview live from the floor of SMX Advanced 2009, Rand talks to Lindsay Walker from Canada's Web Shop about Microsoft's new search engine, Bing . Lindsay offers some good insight into how SEOs should go about learning how best to optimize for Bing, as well as some of the nice features it has for international geo-targeting. SEOmoz Interview - Lindsay Walker on Bing from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo . Do you like this post?

When it comes to operating a successful online business these days the key is traffic to your website. In order to generate traffic there are a number of sources one can tackle. The first and most obvious is an increase in your search rankings over at Google. But what about all those social media websites floating around out there â?" are they worth your attention? According to a release at Nielsen Online (PDF) ,

Hi all! It's JB Coutinho, marketing manager for PayPal's Send Money application within Yahoo! Mail. Starting today, we have a Send and a Request Money application directly within Yahoo! Mail - making sending or asking for money easy and painless. Here's how it works. If you have a PayPal account, you .

Posted by rebecca Stories, news, and other notable items from the past 3 weeks: Enquisite launches Enquisite Campaign for general users, enabling folks to improve their organic search rankings by capturing real-time search data and providing ROI tracking. It'd be cool to hear feedback from any of you monkeys if you've tried out the service. Andrew Goodman follows up Part I of his " Is Guy Kawasaki Singlehandedly Ruining Twitter ?" post with Part II .

Keyword modification is a useful concept if you plan to make the maximum use of your keyword management for SEO. The key to modifying your keywords properly is to take your primary keyword and use it in its multiple variations. For instance, if your primary keyword is "ski vacation", there are a number of ways that you can utilize this phrase other than using that specific phrase as it is. You can pluralize it (ski vacations), turn it into a verb (ski vacationing,

Google Australia , China and some other places where it's Saturday already are displaying a special logo doodle celebrating Tetris. The alt text reads "Celebrating 25 Years of The Tetris Effect - courtesy of Tetris Holding, LLC", and the logo is linked to a search for tetris . Wikipedia knows: "Tetris ... is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984". [Thanks Hebbet , Tom & Tony!

With Google Squared you can search Google and have the results presented in a highly structured way. This experimental search tool is especially useful when the information you need requires complex, time consuming searches. How it works I have a fascination with skyscrapers and I would like to collect a list of buildings that have at one point been the world's tallest. Instead of visiting site after site, collecting my list in a document,

A few weeks back, we announced that all publishers can now integrate their AdSense accounts with Google Analytics. If you're not very familiar with Analytics yet, you might be interested in reading a recent post on the Analytics blog that addresses ten common myths about the product. For example, did you know that you can use Analytics to segment visitor data in real time, or that you can use the new Analytics API to tie your website data to your financials?

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Truffles (Searches increased by 818%). Get out your snout. Time to hunt down the elusive mushroom. John Travolta movies (+814%). The star of "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" is keeping a low profile as he continues to mourn the death of his son. Gwyneth Paltrow (+299%). The celeb appeared on "The Tonight Show" to teach Conan O'Brien how to "plump" his butt . Lisa Ling (+150%).