Google took the wraps off its Nexus One phone today, and by all accounts, this device will help spread Android further and faster than ever. But new data from AdMob shows that the mobile operating system was already on quite a roll. A post on the official AdMob blog began by stating that growth has been occurring at an impressive rate in recent months, noting, "Worldwide requests from Android devices increased 97% from October to December." Moreover,

Every now and then, someone spots an oddity in Google's suggestions. Some are funny. Some are disturbing , and some are just weird. Alex Wilhelm at The Next Web has discovered an interesting behavior in Google Suggest involving religion. With most major religions, you will get suggestions from Google when you type in a query like "example is". If you type "christianity is", or "judaism is" you will get suggestions (which some will no doubt find controversial in themselves),

by Mike Krumboltz Casey Johnson was just 30 years old when she was found dead in L.A. on Monday; reps say she passed away of natural causes. The young socialite's death has sparked a slew of headlines and Web searches. Ms. Johnson was no stranger to the public eye and to controversy. An heiress to the Johnson & Johnson company fortune, her father was New York Jets owner Robert Wood Johnson. Mr. Johnson purchased the Jets in 2000 for $635 million.

The U.S. online advertising industry will shake off the recession's effects and have an excellent time of it in 2010, according to one expert. J.P. Morgan's Imran Khan has predicted that just about every aspect of the sphere should experience significant growth this year. Let's start with the subject of display advertising. Ground was lost during 2009; in a document titled "2010 Internet Industry Outlook," Khan put the change at a negative 5.2 percent.

USA TODAY has introduced a newly designed homepage, the first major redesign for the site since 2007. The new site offers improved navigation and a cleaner feel with the aim of making it easier for users to find content. The new homepage loads 25 to 35 percent faster allowing users to get to news content quickly. Initially the redesign is launching just on the homepage and more changes will be visible over the rest of the site in the coming weeks.

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by Vera H-C Chan A few years ago, it was all about cleansing. Last year, dosing on antioxidants (notably the  açaí berry ) was the hot way to lose weight. This year...fast foods? Every new year, online searches invariably spike for old diet standbys like South Beach and Atkins, but the newest fad under investigation is the so-called Taco Bell Drive-Thru Diet. Except, cautions the fast-food diet infomercial that premiered during the gluttonous holiday season,

The top 7 how-to's of 2009 Well, it's not quite like "Dear Abby," but last year's how-to posts from the Yahoo! Search Marketing blog and the Yahoo! Advertising blog are the next best thing. In the last year of the "aughts," we tried to help show you the way to more effective sponsored search, and more effective web advertising in general,

Microsoft said today it is releasing pricing details for its Office 2010 editions launching later this year. "Office 2010 will be offered in four versions, to make it easier to choose a version of Office that's best for you - Office Home and Business, Office Professional, Office Home and Student, and Office Professional Academic," Microsoft said in a blog post. Office Home and Student will be available for $149, Office Home and Business will cost $279,

There has been quite a bit of buzz surrounding the concept of trust these days. More specifically, how TrustRank is likely to have a strong correlation with search engine rankings. This is not a surprise to most SEO's, as trust-building activities such as link development have long been commonplace for just that reason. What seems to get lost in translation however is that the practice of search engine optimization is different from building a trusted website.