Recently I saw Barry Ritholtz mentioned that he was selling video recordings of a conference he put on for only $69, and some of the people who commented on his site wrote garbage like this : These people have enough capital to try to trade the markets, but spending $69 for one of the most in depth and most current pieces of information about their livelihood is completely out of the question.

If you attended SES San Jose last year, you may have seen the Search Engine Foosball Smackdown. It was a heated event between Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! Each search engine sent some of its best foosers to see who would dominate (well, at least who would dominate the foosball table). Microsoft was knocked out in the elimination round, although that was before Bing. This left Google and Yahoo! to battle it out in the finals. The Yahoo!

by Claudine Zap Before Naomi Campbell , before Tyra Banks , there was Naomi Sims . The pioneering beautiful woman some called the first black supermodel recently died at 61. The super-tall stunner crashed through the color barrier of the 1960s by appearing as the first black cover model for Ladies' Home Journal, becoming the unofficial face of the "Black Is Beautiful" movement. News of the fashion icon's death immediately sent searches into the stratosphere,

by Michele Meyer Remember Anna Chlumsky, the fresh-scrubbed kid with the cherry-red grin in the 1991 family flick " My Girl "? Her starring role as Vada, a motherless tomboy going through some growing pains, earned her an MTV Movie Award for "Best Kiss" (with co-star Macaulay Culkin) and a Young Artist Award for "Most Promising Young Newcomer"â?"not too shabby for a 10-year-old. Primed for superstardom,

Yahoo's order of battle for today must b "re-engineering" its neglected property. Aside from the enhancements to Flickr's search result page , Yahoo is also revitalizing another one of its most used web property - Delicious. The social bookmarking site is living up to the sign of the times (read: Twitter) by adding fresh bookmarks based on the buzz these bookmarks are getting from Twitter.

For more on today's hottest stories, check out our top searched list. What other big news and gossip happened today? Let us know! Come back for tomorrow's Hot Searches on AOL. Hot Searches for June 25, 2009: 1. Diet pills - Trying to lose weight? Check out our Top Searched Diet Pills 2. Southwest Airlines - Begins flights from LaGuardia 3. Wimbledon - See who moved in to the quarter finals 4. Janie Liszewski - Eddie Van Halen marries longtime girlfriend 5.

With new features and iPhone capability, Webtrends Analytics 9 is positioned to regain users and possibly take back the analytics crown from Google. As we mentioned above, Webtrends Analytics 9 is now compatible with Apple's iPhone . But how could this be - aren't most analytics engines primarily flash? Not Analytics 9. It uses only HTML, CSS and Javascript - No Flash. Even if javascript is turned off,

Not too long ago, quite a mess came into being as Jeremy Schoemaker sued Keyen Farrell for his (alleged) misuse of Google AdWords. Farrell countersued, claiming defamation. Now, Farrell's withdrawn his lawsuits and reached a settlement with Schoemaker, but things might actually escalate rather than go back to normal. The truly odd thing about this situation was that Farrell worked as a Google AdWords account specialist. So if, as Schoemaker accused ,

The Free Software Foundation has launched an online petition to convince Amazon.com to drop its use of digital rights management (DRM) technology on its Kindle. The move comes after Amazon deleted customers copies of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984" without notice.