Ever noticed a trending topic on Twitter and then headed to a search engine to learn more? A new site from the Bing team makes that process even easier. BingTweets is a new site that pulls in trending topics on Twitter and offers Bing search results right on the same page. BingTweets is not found at Bing.com but rather has its own standalone site at BingTweets.com . When you click on one of the topics,

by Claudine Zap Nothing instills fear like these two apocalyptic words: Swimsuit season. What has carefully been concealed most of the year suddenly must see the harsh light of day. Say it together now: The horror. Fortunately, when choosing a bathing suit style, options abound. Everything from the modest "slimming" to the bravely bare "micro" is available. The most baffling to us: The monokiniâ?"basically, just the bottom half of a bikini. Or as some sites call it,

Google Friend Connect has announced support for 47 new languages . (It's already supported in English.) The new languages are......(drum roll please).

by Mike Krumboltz It's not every day that you get to hear U.S. Senators and a Supreme Court nominee talk about nunchucks . Today was one such day. In one of the more unintentionally light exchanges  of the second day of confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor , Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah questioned Sotomayor on Maloney v. Rice . The case involved the banning of nunchucks, a martial arts weapon made from two sticks of wood and connected by a chain or, as Sen.

Nielsen is releasing data showing that recommendations from friends and family top the list of most trusted forms of advertising, with online reviews and branding topping the list as well. Here's how ad trust has changed over the past two years: But what is the reason for the change?

Google Sites is a free product that makes it easy to create websites. It's pretty basic, and it's designed primarily to be a group site or intranet, where you can share documents, calendars, etc. Now, Google is allowing AdSense to be displayed on these Sites . Publishers have the option to place AdSense in the sidebar as well as the main content of each page.

Dictionary.com is experiencing great success with their iPhone app . It has been downloaded 2.3 million times and has now been listed as one of Apple's 30 favorite apps. Plus, they're the #2 app in the reference category. With over 60,000 apps in the iTunes App Store, it's certainly difficult to stand out. That makes Dictionary.com's accomplishments with their app all the more meaningful. The App Store turns one year old this month. Over 1.

As part of our ongoing efforts to explore options in real-time search, weve partnered with Federated Media and Twitter to create BingTweets which fuses Bing search results and real time content from Twitter in an interesting new interface. How does partnering with Twitter make Bing a more effective decision engine? Many people share their thoughts on Twitter, and search engines dont currently do a great job of capturing that real-time content.

Google is proud to announce Tasks as the first graduate from its Gmail Labs experimental workshop , as well as the launch of Google Calendar Labs today. First, the Tasks graduation. The Gmail Labs group last December launched Tasks, a task management tool that lets users keep track of their agenda. Tasks pops up a chat window for you to type in to-do lists or appointments. Tasks has a full editing menu where you can add, subtract, indent, reorder or print the tasks.

by Vera H-C Chan From the people who have rocked your abs, mastered your thighs and trimmed your nose hairs comes a device to fix that turkey gullet you call a chin.  The Neckline Slimmer is the latest As Seen on TV fix-it to rock the Buzz. Yahoo! searches on " neckline slimmer " have swelled, mostly from the double-chinned contingents in Boston, Los Angeles, Dallas, New York City, and D.C. (Yes, the nation's capitol. Maybe something to do during the Sonia Sotomayor hearings.