Hulu has a new captions search feature available via Hulu Labs. The feature allows Hulu users to search the captions of videos across hundreds of different shows. Show and video pages now have a "Captions" tab, and search can be found there. "Recently I watched an episode of House, and they made a funny joke about the resemblance between Dr. Foreman (Omar Epps) and Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. I couldnt remember which episode it was in,

The Federal Trade Commission has joined an effort to warn consumers about deceptive online marketing related to free trial offers that require people to cancel or opt-out of a recurring charge for future products or services. The Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, David C. Vladeck, along with officials from Visa and the Better Business Bureau (BBB) are cautioning consumers about the free trial feature, known as a "negative option.

Twitter is all the rage, but you don't need me to tell you that. So, yes, this is another Twitter article. But hang in there, it's a good one! Lately I'm hearing mixed reviews about the success companies are having with Twitter. After my own successes with Twitter, I was a little surprised, so I decided to dig a little deeper to try to find out why some are having success and others aren't. Ready for what I found?

Image via Wikipedia What is social media? When Chris Shipley announced BlogOn 2004 , social media meant blogging and social networking. Today, the term has expanded to also include micro-blogging, Wikis, social bookmarking, social news, photo sharing, video sharing, and more. At SES Chicago 2009, Byron Gordon of SEO-PR interviewed Brian Boland, Manager, Performance Solutions, Facebook , about the advent of social media.

comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced a new solution, in conjunction with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), that measures the effectiveness of online advertising campaigns in building sales of CPG brands in supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchants, convenience stores and other retail channels that are important to the CPG industry.

As you have no doubt heard by now, actress Brittany Murphy tragically passed away over the weekend. As saddening as that news was for many, people wanted information about it. As with any other celebrity death or big news event, people scrambled to find updates. This need for fresh info is really where real-time search has its greatest potential. Google has only recently begun showing "real-time" results in its search results, pulling tweets from Twitter,

Although it's hard to predict the split between thank you notes and hate mail, Google's accountants may be receiving a lot of letters over the next few days. It looks like Google managed to avoid paying about $725 million in taxes in the UK last year. Back in April, The Sunday Times determined that Google saved itself $160 million in 2007 thanks to its practice of channeling revenues through Ireland instead of Britain. More than a few people protested the shuffle,

Yesterday (20/12/09) was the busiest ever day for the BBC Radio 1 website as listeners logged on to discover that Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name' had beaten X Factor winner Joe McElderry's 'The Climb' to the Christmas number one spot . The website was the 36th most visited in the UK and, as the chart below illustrates, picked up four times its usual amount of traffic. Follow Hitwise UK on Twitter.

I was reading up on Google acquisitions yesterday and although Google's acquisition this year is not as many as previous years, particularly 2006 and 2007, Google's acquisitions in 2009 certainly made sense with their landmark acquisition of AdMob as their most expensive buy. But looking at Google's 2009 acquisitions from a quality, and not quantity perspective,

Those of you who follow my writing know that I'm a bookworm . And just as I'm frequently lending books to friends (or thrusting them at their faces while ordering them to "read this," as the case may be) I like to share great posts, resources and other items I find around the blogosphere. Real quickly before I get into that, I'd just like to mention I'm giving away a copy of The Knack . It's an excellent business book by Bo Burlingham and Norm Brodsky,