by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Edie Falco (Searches increased by 7,271%). The "Sopranos" actress now stars as a pill-popping medic in "Nurse Jackie." The show is facing criticism from real nurses . Stephen Colbert (+736%). The "Colbert Report" host takes his show to Iraq. See what all the buzz is about . New Apple iPhone (+306%). There's a faster, high-end iPhoneâ?"and the old one is now only $99 . Today's mortgage rates (+284%).

Last night, we had the honor of attending the 13th Annual Webby Awards in New York City, where YouTube stars like video DJ Mike Relm performed and YouTube staples like The Onion were recognized. But what happened on stage is only half the story. Starting today, you can watch the show on the official Webby Awards YouTube Channel : www.youtube.com/webby. You can also design your own Webby Awards experience, using show highlights (like this montage ),

As you may have noticed, Bing is live today as a preview. The site will be fully deployed by Wednesday. Be sure to go to www.bing.com and check out for yourself all of the new features and functionality of the new search engine. It's pretty cool stuff. We're also excited to welcome you today to the new home of the Webmaster Center blog and forums , as part of the new Bing Community site. Welcome! The old URLs are now automatically redirecting visitors to this new site,

Posted by rebecca Happy June, evvabody! Here's what happened last month in case you were bedridden with swine flu: Best Blog Posts in May 2009 If I Could Go Back In Time & Give Myself Some Advice, This Would Be It . If Rand could turn back tiiiiiime...if he could find a wayyyyyyyyy...Rand hops into his DeLorean and gives his 2007 self some advice, including "Use email marketing," "Invest in your affiliate program," and "Don't try to rip off the Libyans.

Last week, StatCounter was the first to release data showing Bing doing well in its first week . Now, comScore data seems to corroborate that sentiment, albeit not the extreme success in StatCounter's numbers. comScore compared data from Microsoft's search sites the week before Bing's launch to the first 5 days it was live. Check it out: Of course, it remains to be seen if this is the beginning of a nice momentum or if it's all out of curiosity.

When I was in law school, one of my professorsâ?"a no-nonsense New Yorker with a Harvard pedigreeâ?"liked to say that those of us who became trial attorneys would need to learn how to effectively communicate with a group of "shoe salesmen and janitors." That's how he referred to juries. Pretty brutal, I know. But his point was that despite all the high-level legal philosophy that was being jammed into our heads,

Hi everyone. Jason Miner, host of PayPal Radio with news about today's June 9th show at 5 ET / 2 PT. Because of the holiday last month, we've been away for three weeks, so today's show is full of PayPal news! My first guest is Senior Product Manager Charles Fletcher, .

Google Searches Mirror the Economy (Fortune) Google queries for terms like "investments" closely match the stock market's performance, according to a study the search giant commissioned from Compete. The study also identifies the search traits of high-value credit card shoppers - mainly that they search a whole lot. Can MySpace Pull Off a Comeback? (CNN) Few sites have ever come back from a decline in popularity. MySpace is clearly determined to beat the odds,

If you run a local business, things just got better for you. Google has announced that it will now start providing Google Analytics data for businesses that are listed in its Local Business Center. \ The specific data you'll be able to track includes: Number of impressions your LBC profile receives via Google.

Yesterday, we reported on d ata from Hitwise on the length of keywords in Canadian searches . Today, Hitwise has released information on what Canadians are searching for. Of the top 100 searches, only 13 are generic (In the US, only 9 out of the top 100 are generic). The rest are navigational. Take a look: As you can see, games was the top generic term, coming in at #18. Eight of the top 100 terms were related to games. When looking at French search terms,