Although spell checkers have been around for about 30 years, they still miss or incorrectly flag a whole lot of stuff (try "eye wonder weather this is write" and "monetize"). Google wants its transcription software to become better more quickly, and so is asking for users for a hand. On the Google Voice Blog , Vincent Paquet, a senior product manager, recently wrote, "Until now,

by Eric Brown It seems a lot of small and midsized businesses are starting to introduce Social Media into their marketing arsenal. Perhaps it is because of budget restrictions or they just want some of the profound buzz surrounding the Social Media Craze. But what happens once the facebook fan page is up, but few fans, twitter account is live, but only a handful of followers and a blog with no comments and little interaction, Now What?

comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 41 days of the November â?" December 2009 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $19.9 billion has been spent online, marking a 3-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. The most recent week saw above average online spending growth of 4 percent versus year ago,

Pandia reads the search engine news for you and picks the most important articles and videos. Video of the week 1: Real time search Bing was first. Now both Yahoo! and Google has added real time search to their search engine result pages. Yahoo! may, for instance, and twitter tweets at the bottom of its search result pages. Google does it this way: Headlines of the week What Google's Real-Time Search Means to SEO,

There's a microwave that has been getting some attention this week. It's called CastOven , and it plays YouTube videos while you cook your food. Not only does it play videos, but it plays videos specifically catering to the amount of time you have the microwave set for. The CastOven was created by two designers from Keio University in Japan, Keita Watanabe, Ph.D. and Shota Matsuda. Their description of the CastOven reads as follows: CastOven is a future microwave oven,

Over the years you've probably heard search engine optimization and other Internet marketers refer to pay per click advertising as an SEO tool. It is, of course, its own form of marketing and whether or not you use it as an SEO tool has no bearing on the effectiveness of it as marketing tool. But even I have referred to PPC as an SEO tool on several occasions. But to what extent? First, but not foremost, PPC can be used as keyword research.

Frankly, it's about time that Google come up with its own phone. Not just the co-manufactured phone running on Google's Android platform but a real Google phone with the Google brand and to be sold through Google not through network carriers or any mobile company. Guess what? It might soon become a reality as there have been strong proofs of a new Google phone which even have a name already - the Google Nexus One.

One of Google's leading marketing secrets is to appeal to power users. When describing how they designed Gmail, Google's Todd Jackson stated : We started with the early-adopter crowd. That was on purpose. We wanted to build a product for people who were getting hundreds of e-mails a day, because we believe by focusing on the power user,