by Claudine Zap The late-night war has come to the Web . And if the Web is choosing, it's siding with Conan O'Brien . The controversy began when NBC decided to move Jay Leno (the former " Tonight Show " host) to a later time slot, which would have reportedly pushed Conan O'Brien's "Tonight Show" to 12:05 (technically not even night). The redhead saw red,

Talk about kickin' a man when he's down. Perhaps fueled by Senator Harry Reid's recent negative publicity regarding allegedly racist statements made about President Obama, his possible opponent in the Senate race in Nevada, GOP hopeful Sue Lowden, wants to "Kick Harry Reid Out of Office." And her primary campaign is already running the ads and microsites to prove it. The Nevada Republican primary isn't till June,

The earthquake in Haiti , which notched a terrible magnitude 7.0, had drastic consequences for the country and affected lives everywhere. Google, always socially conscious, took several steps to provide relief, as eWEEK noted here . The No. 1 search engine is promoting help relief on its homepage, the most valuable piece of real estate online: The link takes you here: Concerned citizens can submit donations to UNICEF or CARE through Google Checkout,

Due to a new development, you may be able to either thank Google for getting China to censor less information, or blame the company for starting World War III. The reason: the White House has sided with Google in the free speech and hacking conflict that cropped up this week. According to John Letzing , White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said today, "We support [Google's] action . . . to no longer censor searches that happen using the [Google] platform . . . .

U.S. software retail sales fell slightly by just over 1 percent for the 2009 holiday season, according to The NPD Group. Sales for the 5-week holiday period totaled $278 million dollars, up from the 13 percent decline during the 2008 holiday season. The operating systems category showed the strongest improvement during the holiday season, boosted by the sales of Microsoft's Windows 7. Overall operating systems revenue increased from $10 million in 2008 to $29 million in 2009.

The first Matt Cutts Answers Questions About Google video of the year has been posted, and in it Matt addresses links from Twitter and Facebook, after talking about his shaved head again. Specifically, the submitted question he answers is: Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic & acceptance for a website. How do you rate links from new platforms like Twitter, FB to a website? Essentially,

by Mike Krumboltz On January 15, 2009, US Airways flight 1549 made an emergency landing on the Hudson River. Amazingly, nobody on the flight was seriously injured. The event became known as " the Miracle on the Hudson ," and pilot Chesley Sullenberger became an instant celebrity. One year later, interest in the flight and its key players continues to rock the Search box. Over the past year,

by Mike Krumboltz With Haiti still reeling from Tuesday's devastating earthquake, organizations and governments continue to struggle to get supplies to the island nation. More supplies are on the way, but it is unknown when they will arrive. Meanwhile, on the Web, people eager to help are seeking out unique ways in which they can contribute. In the Search box, some of the biggest queries are for different ways to "text to help." For example,

Following up Nielsen search market share data, Hitwise has also released their search metrics for December 2009. And just like Nielsen's stats, Google is also leading the pack, getting 72.5% of all searches conducted in the U.S. during the said period. This is equivalent to 1% growth rate from November 2009. All the three other search engines trailing Google from behind suffered  a decrease in searches. Yahoo got 14.83%, down from 15.93%, Bing got 8.92% from 9.34% and Ask.

As you may have heard from our announcement yesterday , registration for Google I/O is now open! This year's Google I/O will focus on building the next generation of applications in the cloud, using Google products like App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, and Google APIs, with particular emphasis on Android, Chrome, and Enterprise. Here are just a couple of Enterprise sessions that are already listed on the I/O website (many more are in the works!