by Vera H-C Chan Our picks from the day's hottest searches. Aston Martin (+759%). James Bond has dibsâ?"the One-77 supercar is being tested, and reported is breaking records and " predictions " with speeds up to 220 mph.. Tavern on the Green (+896). Come New Year's Day, this Central Park institution shuts its doors . The closure of the once massively-profitable restaurant inspires much analysis into the powerful LeRoy family , who had owned the place since 1976.

Hi all. I'm Judy Chang with the nonprofits team to announce that today is another installment of #CharityTuesday. If you don't remember from last week, #CharityTuesday is a tag on Twitter to help nonprofit groups spread the word about their causes. The organizations participating in our Regift the Fruitcake campaign .

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You may recall that a lot of entities -including Google, Yahoo, and Bing - released some top/best of/worst of 2009 lists back in late November and early December, seemingly forgetting about the last one-twelfth of the year. Bing returned today with more data about search trends, however. As with the list of popular status updates that Facebook released yesterday, we'll trust that you're able to read the information for yourself.

Google's Custom Search turned three in 2009, and it had arguably its biggest year to date. The technology is powering "many tens of millions" of queries a day on millions of sites, according to the company. As many others are doing, Google is reminiscing about the year that is almost over, and reflecting upon some of its accomplishments. The Custom Search Team specifically is reflecting on some of its highlights for 3009.

Read " The Meaning of Open " by Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice president of product management, because it's a great read, but read it knowing a few things. First, Google open sources a lot of software, in fact Rosenberg claims Google is the largest open source contributor in the world, contributing over 800 projects that total over 20 million lines of code to open source.

A few weeks ago, Bing launched a photo contest with the theme "Home Sweet Home." After selecting finalists, the public has voted and the winner is Seattle Skyline by Justin Kraemer . It's just flat-out gorgeous-amazing-wowsers: Justin's image will appear on the Bing homepage on January 6, 2010. The Bing team will add some hotspots featuring trivia to go along with the photo.

The new beta feature lets you search captions for thousands of videos across Hulu. Caption Search can be found in Hulu Labs . When on the Hulu Labs page, scroll down to find the actual projects in Labs. Along with caption search, Hulu is releasing "heat maps." This graphs user interest along a timeline of a given video that has caption search. You can find the heat map under the "Captions" tab, located under the video you're watching.

Motorists who write text messages while driving are six times more likely to crash than those who don't text while driving, according to a new study by University of Utah psychologists. Researchers Frank Drews and colleagues found evidence that attention patterns differ for drivers who text versus those who talk on a cell phone. For those who talk on a cell phone, researchers say, "drivers apparently attempt to divide attention between a phone conversation and driving,

comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 50 days of the November â?" December 2009 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $25.5 billion has been spent online, marking a 4-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. The final shopping weekend of the season (Dec.