Sports fans, this one is for you. We're partnering with Sports Illustrated for our next Digg Dialogg with Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson. Sports Illustrated Senior Writer Peter King will be sitting down with him at the Vikings training camp in Minneapolis and asking him your top questions. You have until next Wednesday, December 9th at 12pm PT, so submit your questions now . Adrian Peterson is widely regarded as the best running back in the NFL today,

Yesterday, Bing went down for about 30 minutes between 6:30pm and 7pm PST. Microsoft's Senior Vice President of Online Services, Satya Nadella, took to the Bing Search blog to explain : The cause of the outage was a configuration change during some internal testing that had unfortunate and unintended consequences. As soon as the issue was detected, the change was rolled back, which caused the site to return to normal behavior.

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Supernova (Searches increased by 755%). A massive explosion in space revealed a star 200 times bigger than our sun . Art Basel (+655%). Paging arty types: It's the invasion of the major art show in Miami . Roman Polanski (+307%). The ex-pat director on the lam began house arrest â?" or should we say Swiss chalet . Cookie exchange (+244%). A fun and tasty holiday tradition â?" just not low-cal. Oh,

Update: Pizza Hut announced today that its former "Twintern" now has the official title of "Tweetologist," and now holds a full-time position. From the announcement: For more than a month, Alexa Robinson - Pizza Hut's former summer "Twintern" who was hired as an intern to keep up with Pizza Hut fans through @pizzahut on Twitter - has been working without a job title. After extending a full-time job offer to Alexa,

It's possible to make hundreds, thousands, or even millions of dollars in a few minutes. It's also possible to lose tons of money in a short time span, however, and this is even more likely to happen when someone's dealing with outdated information. So from now on, news stories will be streamed on Google Finance as they're published. A couple of quick notes: okay, so professional stockbrokers and serious day traders tend to use specialized services,

Five years ago today, Digg.com went live. What started as a simple idea has certainly come a long way. From a vision of a new way to surface news, and a team of three, to 40+ million monthly visitors and 80+ passionate employees'well, suffice it to say that I'm very proud of what we've become. There have been a lot of memorable moments over the years. From the Paris Hilton phone hacking incident to cracking the HD-DVD key ,

In Part 1 of this series, we cited "An Empirical Study of Search Engine Advertising Effectiveness" which concludes that conversion rates are flat across positions for certain engines. Taking this study into account, you should not determine bids by the position they will appear on the page, but rather the amount of money you are able to spend per click and remain profitable. Every keyword in your account will drive users to a different shopping experience and therefore,

A few stories of note from around the Internet: Friendster to be Sold by Month's End Reuters Proto-social network will be sold to Asian firm for about $100 million. Seeking a Symbol for 'This Ad Knows About You' NYTimes Bits Blog A breakdown of the current discussion on what logo should represent targeted advertising. Coke Tries Facial-Recognition on Facebook WSJ Builds database to help Facebook users find their twin on the site. Not surprisingly,

MySpace has launched a new version of its mobile site at m.myspace.com for people who use iPhone, Android, and Palm WebOS. This version is optimized to take advantage of the browsers and screen sizes of these devices. The company says the new version allows users to navigate MySpace and take actions in a lot fewer clicks. In addition, it includes a mobile-optimized version of MySpaceIM, and notifies users of new MySpace activities, such as new messages, comments, IM messages,

On Monday, Dec. 7, Google will host a search event at the Computer History Museum in Google's Mountain View, Calif.,hometown. However, Google trotted out a few tools ahead of the event to whet our appetites: translated search in its search options, a fade in search trick, and, as unearthed by the LA Times , Google Dictionary. First, the translation tool. Google has steadily been improving Google Translate,