Google filed a submission on its own and one jointly with Verizon to the FCC for its proposed rulemaking docket. Google says its goal is "to keep the Internet awesome for everybody." "There's a lot of awesome stuff on the Internet: Cats talking LOLspeak. Iranian dissidents tweeting. Live traffic updates. Science experiments," says Rick Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel on Google's Public Policy Blog. "All of these things, and so much more,

by Mike Krumboltz Star power, new technologies, and old-fashioned government aid are all playing a part in the extraordinary effort to help the people of Haiti. Concerned individuals from around the globe have already donated millions of dollars to the earthquake ravaged country. And they are continuing to respond to requests for aid... International individual financial donations are totaling in the millions.

This week the Twitter Friday column expands as a major Twitter SEO topic is on our agenda. Last week Technology Review published an article titled " How Google ranks tweets ". In the TR article leading Google engineer Amit Singhal explains ranking factors for tweets. Some of the ranking criteria are quite clear and obvious while others remain fuzzy behind Google's veil of secrecy. There is one big surprise: Google hates #hashtags ,

Over at MIT's Technology Review, they have the goods on how Google ranks tweets . Ok, like your regular old organic results, they didn't learn the secret sauce. But they did get some good info on how you can optimize your Twitter account so your Tweets have a better chance of appearing in real-time search results. Reputation is key. Who follows you determines reputation. If your followers have a lot of followers, that gives more authority to your tweets. "You earn reputation,

The last eBay-centric article to appear on WebProNews concerned mobile transactions during the holiday season; the company was quite proud of its stats and had made some noise about them. Now, there's essentially been outside confirmation of its impressive performance, as eBay was declared the 2009 Mobile Retailer of the Year. Mobile Commerce Daily is the entity that awarded eBay this title, and Giselle Tsirulnik, its senior editor,

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. 2010 fashion trends (Searches increased by 1,945%). Please let sheggings be on the way out. Earthquake relief (+1,846%). Corporate contributions are adding to the donations of kind-hearted citizens, celebs and governments. Solar eclipse (+632%). A ring-like eclipse best seen from the Maldives is a once-in-a-thousand-years occurrence . Sheep with human face (+371%). Not a pretty picture. Literally .

Nielsen, Hitwise, and comScore are all in agreement, so onlookers can perhaps declare it official now: Google had a good December. comScore, the member of the trio that most recently released its search market data, didn't put Google up by a whole lot, though, and unlike the other firms, saw Bing gain ground. Here are the facts related to that first situation: Between November and December, comScore believes that Google's market share increased from 65.6 percent to 65.

Google recently announced that it was launching a new feature for Google Docs, which would allow users to upload and store any kind of file. What may not have been clear, however, is that this new storage from Google isn't limited to just Google Docs. The company is saying that Gmail and Picasa storage can also be used.

Typing on a mobile phone is a pain in the you know what no matter what device you're using, so query suggestion features on search engines come in handy. Now, Google is making its Search Suggestions on mobile devices even easier. The feature now serves up query suggestions based on your location . The update is only available for iPhone and Android devices at the time. You might need to refresh Google.com on your device in order to see the updated suggestions.

U.S. sales of video games, which includes portable and console hardware, software and accessories, generated revenues of close to $19.6 billion, an 8 percent decrease over the $21.4 billion generated in 2008, according to The NPD Group. Retail sales in the PC game software industry also saw declines, with revenues down 23 percent, reaching $538 million in 2009. The total console, portable and PC game software industry hit $10.5 billion,