You may have recently seen all of the videos uploaded for the 2010 YouTube Davos Debates . Because the audience for these videos is truly global, we want to make them accessible and available to as many people as possible. We've now added captions for over 500 videos from The Davos Debates. Try a Google search for captioned video on thedavosquestion to see some of the results. To turn on captions,

Crowd by victoriapeckham . Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. Ever since I'm on Twitter I've tried to get as many people to participate spontaneously in writing my posts or rather compiling my lists. I always seek contributions for my "30 something" flagship posts. The appropriate term for these kind of participation is crowdsourcing . Many people contribute to one cause or piece of content. It's as simple as that but it's not simple as all.

Auto dealers say the Internet has provided them with the highest return on investment (ROI) over the last five years, according to a new survey from Autobytel. The majority (96%) of dealers predict the Internet will play a larger role in their marketing in the next five years. Internet leads continue to play a critical role, with 93 percent of dealers reporting that new and used third-party leads are an important part of their marketing mix.

Google employee Neil shows you how to use/ abuse the Google Charts API to create a heart shape , ready for Valentine's Day. [Thanks Neil!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Using the Google Charts API for Valentine's D .

Apparently, a completely unrelated page was a top search result for the query cancel google ... and it now received tons of comments by people who want to just that, cancel Google. Like the following (I'm not actually sure which ones are troll comments!): please take it off my computer i dont need it any more thank you and have a nice day or... i want google to go and want my comcast back dont know how this happened and How do I turn off the google webpage?

Doc Searls in an article at Linux Journal writes: Advertising is a bubble. If that's a true statement, Google is a bubble too. And if that's true, many of the goods we take for granted on the Web are at risk. Let's run down some evidence ... Google has more than a million servers ... Google's data centers are already public utilities on the scale of coal-fired power plants ... Think of advertising as oil and Google as one big emirate.

I wanted to highlight some of the concerns voices in comments to the last privacy related post about Gmail Buzz: Reid says: "The basic reason that the Buzz privacy is still a problem is that I don't have control over where I show up. I can't decide whether I show up in a list of followers on someone else's public profile: I have to rely on that other person turning off that option, which most people are probably not going to think to do ... Likewise for any comments.

Google confirmed Feb. 11 that it had indeed acquired social search engine Aardvark , a rare departure from the stock "we have nothing to share at this time" rejoinder to requests for information. But Google refused to offer other details. Until today. Google and Aardvark CEO Max Ventilla wrote blog posts discussing the move, which includes Aardvark being dumped into Google Labs, oddly enough. Ventilla saluted the deal with this cute logo: Aardvark lets its 90,

As a prelude to the Grammys tomorrow, we're highlighting the importance of the arts in society on the homepage today, with top user-created videos about arts organizations that make an impact. Many of you accepted Dr. Phil's Video Volunteers challenge to demonstrate how arts nonprofits are changing your community for the better, and you sang , danced , vlogged and even tapped your appreciation for your charity of choice.

by Mike Krumboltz Just because a politician is out of public office, that doesn't mean he or she is out of the public eye. This past week, ex-Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin made big news at a Tea Party event in Tennessee, where she was spotted with some curious crib notes. Meanwhile, up in Minnesota, an odd billboard featuring former President George W. Bush loomed over confused motorists. Take a look back at those mysterious stories and more with the Buzz Week in Review.