The culmination of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale officially starts the holiday shopping season. So, if you still got some Christmas shopping to do, you might want to do it via Google Checkout. Google's online payment facility , which supports various online store is offering exclusive discounts ranging from $5 - $20. The promo gig is running until Dec. 17, just about enough to give yo all the time you need to complete your Christmas Gift list.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is hosting a 2-day workshop on "Journalism and the Internet Age" today and tomorrow. Featured at the event are a number of high profile media executives and gurus. The cast ranges from News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch to Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington. The event appears to be designed to present all possible angles regarding the state of the news industry and the web's role, as well as the government's role, if any.

Following Bing and Y ahoo's year-end search trend report, Google has also released its search Zeitgeist 2009. As expected, searches for the King of Pop, Michael Jackson again leads the top 10 fastest rising queries made on Google search worldwide. And while it was nowhere to be found on both Bing and Yahoo's report it seems that Google users are searching about Facebook more on Google Search as it made it to the number 2 spot. At the number 3 spot is Tuenti,

Posted by randfish Thanks so much for all your votes and feedback on our PRO Webinar Series over the holiday weekend. We received 285 responses and we're taking your suggestions very seriously and conducting the webinar as you've requested :-) Here are the stats from the questionairre/form (you can still fill it out if you'd like to give more input): Will you be able to attend the PRO Webinar on Dec. 10th at 11am Pacific (2pm Eastern, 7pm London)? 74% - Yes,

by Mike Krumboltz Cats are cute. Kittens are even cuter. And the "surprised kitty" may be the cutest creature to ever walk the face of the earth. Period. Starring in a viral video that's taken the Web by storm, the surprised kitty is the hottest pet since Bizkit the sleepwalking dog . In the video, the kitten lies on its back while a person tickles its stomach. Whenever the person pulls her hands away, the kitten mimics the movement.

Google has made a change to the way it treats its "first click free" option for publishers. The option was designed for legitimate publishers to get around Google's cloaking policies, which discourage the showing of one web page to a crawler while the user sees something different. With the policy, Google users have been able to access one article from a publication that has a pay wall in place,

Ask.com gets a lot of their search queries in the form of a question - more so than any other search engine. So, it makes sense that their end-of-the-year list features questions instead of keywords. The questions are a refreshing departure from the usual fare seen on the end-of-year lists from other search engines. They're also humorous, curious - and yes, existential. How much should I weigh? How do I get out of debt fast? How do I get pregnant? What is Twitter?

Understanding of the adCenter market is key to setting up proper ad groups in adCenter. Let us take some time to understand the concept of market and subsequently the mechanism to select proper markets during creation of ad groups. Concept of a Market.

It's that time of the year to look back on the past 12  months and reflect on events of the year. Here at Yahoo!, we've been analyzing billions of queries to find ways to look at the events of this year through the lens of search. Today, the Yahoo! Year in Review returns with a brand new look at what's happened this year. We've expanded the list to take a look at important moments in 2009.

Webmaster Level: All In May this year we announced Rich Snippets which makes it possible to show structured data from your pages on Google's search results. We're convinced that structured data makes the web better, and we've worked hard to expand Rich Snippets to more search results and collect your feedback along the way. If you have review or people/social networking content on your site,