by Vera H-C Chan Garrulous and ever congenial, Billy Mays believed in what he preached. Or pitched. In a month of unexpected celebrity passings, the man who sincerely believed in his hype died reportedly of hypertensive heart disease on June 28. In a month of too many celebrity passings, people took a moment to honor the bearded infomercial hawker. Searches on Yahoo! were so massive on Sunday that his name " billy mays " bypassed even " michael jackson .

Back at MIX09 in March, we talked about our work with Careerbuilder.com , and today we are pleased to report that at the annual Society for Human Resource Management Conference , Careerbuilder.com announced the availability of Applicant Explorer, a new application built on the Bing API that helps recruiters find qualified candidates in the fraction of the time it once took.

by Jennifer Laycock With more and more people signing on to social sites like Twitter and Facebook, companies are working overtime to figure out how to make the companies, products and offerings go viral. While I've written quite a few article about the theories behind preparing a campaign that's likely to go viral, the truth is that some of the most effective viral campaigns are also the simplest.

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I'm currently seeing a slightly changed layout for Google results. The Google logo has gotten smaller, and there's more padding to the left. In Firefox, the file holding the logo for the new layout is called nav_logo6.png (when I open the old layout in Chrome, it's nav_logo4.png ). This redesign could well be just an experimental prototype, and nothing that's rolled out for everyone, I don't know... who else is seeing the changed layout? (Recently,

by Miriam Ellis A few day ago, a business owner told me about a rather complex problem with his Google Maps business listing and asked me what to do about it. My explanation was pretty long, starting with the need to claim his listing and ending with a warning that fixing errors in Google Maps isn't always simple. It took several paragraphs of detailed text to cover what I felt the business owner needed to do and he came back to me with a, "That's great,

Collecta , a new real-time search engine, went live in beta on June 18th.They intro themselves on their homepage by saying " The web is alive with real-time information. So why search a stale archive? Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, and Flickr , so we can show you results as they happen ." This is ambitious stuff at a time when real-time is the buzzword in both search and social media circles.

by Mike Krumboltz It's no secret that Bernie Madoff doesn't have many friends right now. In fact, newspapers can't seem to write his name without describing him as "disgraced." But what might come as a surprise is that his wife, Ruth , may be even more of a social pariahâ?"not for what she's done, but rather for her silence regarding her husband's tremendous fall from grace. Mrs. Madoff is aware of the brewing rage directed toward her. On Monday,

Google Android applications are currently written in Java and run off Google's Dalvik Java virtual machine, however, that will soon change.  Last week Google announced the Android Native Development Kit (v. 1.0) that will allow software to run natively on the Linux layer below.  Without getting into the nitty gritty details of software development, what this all means is that Mozilla is likely to bring the mobile version of Firefox, called Fennec, to the Android platform.

Posted by MikeK@DanconiaMedia This post was originally in YOUmoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. It's been said here before: Press releases are much less powerful than they used to be for SEO purposes. While churning out news releases and submitting them to free sites may not do much,