by Vera H-C Chan Our picks from the day's hottest searches. Sukhoi T-50 (+2,579). The Russian stealth fighter took its " maiden flight " late December, but the rah-rah reporting of its awesomeness is unrolling now. Joe Mauer (+523%). Any day now, the American League's MVP should extend his Minnesota Twins contract another decade. Reserve America Camping (+430%). The booking windows are opening up for America's best outdoor spots. Wiccan (+201%).

Google has taken steps to make sending text messages to multiple recipients a little bit easier with Google Voice. In the past, users had to copy and paste the message for each person on the list. Google is now letting users send the message to multiple people at once. Users now just need to click on the SMS button at the top of their Google Voice inbox, enter the names/numbers in the "To" field, separated by commas, and write the message.

Hurrah, the UK economy is out of recession. Boo, the UK economy is recovering so weakly from the global recession that it may be some time before things truly start to get better. Conclusion? Many experts say that Britain â?" and the US â?" really have to do better in export terms in order for the recovery to gain strength. No surprise there â?" but one step the UK and US economies could take, bearing in mind that they are both supporters of the digital world,

Every effort you place when conducting any search engine optimization related initiatives for your business or website should always have 2 goals in mind. The first is that what you are doing to add to your overall goal of achieving higher rankings in search results (and of course, more visitors to your website!) Your 2nd goal should always be the potential for others to bump into that specific effort. Let me explain below: 1.

European search marketing expert Bas van den Beld will be speaking on "Trends and Tips on Mobile in Europe" at the International Search Summit in London. Bas is currently Chief Editor at European Search blog SearchCowboys.com , a regular contributor to sites such as SearchEngineLand and SearchEngineWatch and a presenter on Webmasterradio, as well as running his own company NetTraject .

Posted by MichaelC It's a well-known fact in the SEO world that Google shows enormous favoritism in its rankings to domain names that contain one or more of the keywords being searched for. If your domain name is a close match to the search keywords all glued together, it's as easy as fishing with dynamite to get on page 1 of the SERPs for that search phrase. While some (like me) might argue (like, against Rand) that it's a flaw in the algorithm,

Noticed something different from Google News lately? Nope? Go ahead and check out Google News site .  You'd notice those "un-highlighted" star icons before the title of each news items . Clicking on those star icons would turn them into yellow stars. Now check the left side of  the Google News site and you'd see a new link labeled "Starred." Click on the link and you will be presented with your 20 most recent "starred" news story cluster. Sweet? Actually,

Google apparently previously said that on Picasa Web Albums, you can "Store up to 8,192,000 photos from a 5MP camera". However, Picasa is limited to 1000 albums containing 1000 pics each... which is far less than the advertised 8,192,000. People complained about this, some wanting a refund for buying additional Picasa storage, and now Google's explanatory text reads "Store up to 10,000 photos from a 5MP camera". [Thanks Dave K.!

HOPE is perhaps the single most lucrative thing to sell. There are so many people in need of direction, while so few actually want to do the work required to achieve the end goal . Thus many scammers sell the end result up front while glossing over the hard work required to get there. I was over at a friend's house in the bathroom and saw a copy of "Your Infinite Power to be Rich" sitting on the floor & flipped open to a random page.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is preparing its online apps store, with the hopes of giving its Google Apps business some much need spike as well as to enable Google to strengthen its ties with business partners.  The new online store will  not only push Google's  suite of business apps,