by Mike Krumboltz Oh, it's on now! El Pollo Loco (aka "the Crazy Chicken" to all you non-Spanish speakers) has called out its bitter rival Kentucky Fried Chicken over KFC's use of beef in its grilled chicken. Say what? EPL contends that KFC is using "beef powder" and "rendered beef fat" in its highly touted grilled chicken sandwich. The maniacs at the Crazy Chicken have even launched a website, BeefyChicken.com , that mocks KFC's reliance on moo meat. Oh, and commercials ,

People may manage their Inboxes differently, but they all face times when they need to quickly find important messages from friends or stop unwanted messages. We're simplifying the Inbox to make it easier for you to find, read and control your Facebook messages. We've already begun testing the new interface for the Inbox, and we will be rolling it out to more of you over the coming weeks.

As you might have noticed, there's a lot of fascinating stuff that happens on YouTube every day. For example, did you know that a nine-year-old recently used YouTube to successfully campaign to save his local kickball lot? Have you seen the video of a Guatemalan lawyer who predicted his own assassination on YouTube moments before it happened? Or did you know that YouTube and Google have launched a new technology platform for political debates,

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Chace Crawford (Searches increased by 1,676%). Say hello to People magazine's "hottest bachelor." Govdeals.com (+217%). The site to get your surplus government castoffs. Iran protests (+186%). Blowback from the disputed election results have spilled over into U.S. streets. J.D. Salinger (+131%). A novel that continues the story of "Cather in the Rye" 60 years later has been temporarily blocked from publication.

Not many in the Search Engine Optimization game would argue that link building isn't tactical. The problem is, approaching link building as an end goal and tactically, is very much like a hamster running in it's cage.  That's what many mechanical SEO consultants do: Chase links one by one or get creative with link bait to attract an influx of links from blogs that write about the kinds of things other blogs do for link bait. I should know,

North Carolina is following closely in the footsteps of the state of New York in desiring to collect an internet sales tax. If passed, a new tax provision would use the affiliate status of residents to classify businesses as having a physical presence in the state, therefore requiring the retailers to pay a sales tax. According to NetChoice, an internet advocacy group, when New York enacted their tax law, over 200 retailers simply stopped their affiliate programs to the state.

One of our goals for Bing was to improve the way search results pages are organized. We wanted to help people get away from the search overload they often feel that sinking feeling when confronted by millions of non-descript results. The Explore Pane is one of the ways we are bringing more order to the page.

Hey everyone, This upcoming Digg Dialogg is sure to be one of the more entertaining and unpredictable ones we've ever done. We'll be interviewing Sacha Baron Cohen in character as Austrian model Bruno next week. We'll post the interview on the Digg Dialogg page Tuesday , June 30th at 10:00am PDT. Bruno is the über-famous Austrian model and host of fashion & celebrity show Funkyzeit. He's releasing his full-length film, Bruno , worldwide on July 10th.

Microsoft today announced that NBC Universal will be the first media partner for its digital TV advertising marketplace, Admira . The technology, which Microsoft gained with its acquisition of Navic a year ago, uses real-time audience measurement data to optimize the delivery and placement of television advertising. This "addressable advertising" platform brings many of the advantages of online advertising to offline media, including better targeting and tracking capabilities.

So I read with amusement the New York Post's account that Google fears Bing. Sure Bing is tearing it up in the early run, getting lots of searchers curious about the hullaballoo. People want to see how Microsoft is going to compete with Google in search. ComScore says Microsoft's average daily penetration among U.S. searchers reached 16.7 percent during the work week of June 8-12, up 3 percentage points from the May 25-29 work week prior to Bing's introduction. Moreover,