by Mike Krumboltz Kentucky Fried Chicken isn't known for its dedication to healthy eating. Even so, the restaurant's recent " Double Down " sandwich has inspired some shocked (and excited) searches. The sandwich, if one can call it that, is unique. Whereas most sandwiches are surrounded by two pieces of bread, the Double Down is framed by two pieces of fried chicken. In between , the brave and gluttonous will find cheese, bacon, and the "Colonel's sauce." No. Veggies. Allowed.

Ok, you've heard of this blogging thing, heard it might help your business but you're just not sure if it will *really* bring results. A new Hubspot study will have you publishing a blog faster than you can say "55% more visitors." Why would you say that? Because that's the average increase in visitors to small business websites as a result of blogging, according to the study. That's not all.

Hi everyone, Barak Turovsky here, from the mobile team at PayPal.  I wanted to fill everyone in on the latest developments with PayPal on BlackBerry App Worldâ?¢. Since our announcement at CTIA, PayPal has been the way to pay on Blackberry's App World. And now, we're expanding our service to .

Many popular social networking sites typically make personal information available to companies that track users' browsing habits and allow them to link anonymous browsing habits to specific people, according to a new study by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). "When you sign up with a social networking site, you are assigned a unique identifier," says Craig Wills, professor of computer science at WPI .

Yahoo made a few announcements today. Among them were new versions of Search, Messenger, and Mail. You can read about Search and Messenger here and here respectively. Now let's talk about the new Yahoo Mail. Yahoo says people can now "do more, share more, and stay better connected from their inbox." They also say that the new enhancements they've made to Yahoo Mail are a "key milestone' to the Yahoo Open Strategy, which extends social and open features.

Last month, we began testing new versions of Search with a small group of people on Facebook. Based on the success of those tests, we're rolling out a new version of Search to everyone on the site beginning today. You now will be able to search the last 30 days of your News Feed for status updates, photos, links, videos and notes being shared by your friends and the Facebook Pages of which you're a fan. If people have chosen to make their content available to everyone,

Yahoo Messenger Version 10 is now available in beta . New features include enhanced video calling, courtesy of GIPS, friend updates from Yahoo, Flickr, Twitter, and others through the new updates view, and improved language support. GIPS has provided the underlying voice technology for Yahoo Messenger for the last three years. Now GIPS is providing its VideoEngine to add the video element to the messenger. "With the launch of Yahoo! Messenger 10,

Yahoo discussed the future of Yahoo Search today. They are launching a new search design that goes along with the new look of the Yahoo Home Page, which was recently launched itself. The new search has a three-column layout (Search Engine Land has a bunch of screenshots ), with most of the changes occurring in the left-hand column. This is where filters and search applications reside.

Is the most exciting thing that happened at SEOmoz's 2009 advanced seminar that Rand almost fell off the stage on the first morning despite his supposedly having turned in early Sunday night and not having gone drinking with the other speakers? No. Is it finding that some random pot-bellied person named Jared is the #1 hot body on Victoria Secret's Body by Victoria contest because of the power of social media ? No.

Hanspeter Thür, Switzerland's federal data protection commissioner, is not remaining neutral on the issue of Google Street View, according to the New York Times . Thür wants Street View to shut down because he says that faces and license plates haven't adequately been blurred out. Google says that it would not shut down Street View, instead going the "meet with the public official" privately route, which is basically their M.O.