by Vera H-C Chan One positive spin to " The Hurt Locker " lawsuitâ?"it could up the movie's street cred. For a while there, the film about Iraqi war bomb technicians had been the underdog. Despite American involvement in significant overseas conflicts, war movies haven't done well at the domestic box office (and truth be told, neither has "The Hurt Locker "). Plus, this production is running against behemoth " Avatar ," directed by James Cameron (Mr.

by Mike Krumboltz Millions of cars have been recalled over the past several months. Toyota has bared the brunt of the bad publicity, but rivals Honda , GM , and Nissan have recalled many of their cars as well. This sudden surge has spurred an interesting trend in the Yahoo! Search box: Web lookups on " how does a recall work " are roaring. What's the biggest auto recall ever ? The fascination is easy to understand. Fortunately, for the curious,

SiteLinks are now appearing in Google's Sponsored Links. An AdWords SiteLinks unit consists of a regular text ad with four additional links. These ad units were sighted in August 2009, and trialled in November 2009 in conjunction with some of Google's Agency Partners, including Gillissa in the UK. Each link can be up to 35 characters. Up to 10 links can be entered by the advertiser, although only 4 will show at a time. The links are not always displayed,

It looks like Facebook will soon begin trying harder to bend the ears of our nation's leaders. Listings for a public policy manager and public policy associate have both been posted on the social network's "Open Positions" page, and Facebook's decided that these people will work in Washington, D.C. This isn't a simple matter of having a couple of folks sit around, answering questions and maybe defending the company when necessary.

Facebook and Twitter access via mobile browsers has grown by triple-digits in the past year, according to the latest research from comScore. More than a quarter (30.8%) of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile browser in January, up 8.3 points from 22.5 percent one year ago. Access to Facebook via mobile browser climbed 112 percent in the past year, while Twitter soared 347 percent.

The Bing Cashback program now has 1,200 active merchants, 44 million offers, and has distributed over $100 million in earned rewards for consumers. Meagan Rochelle, search solutions specialist for Cashback, offered those statistics to the audience at.

Posted by jennita SMX West 2010 kicked off with quite a bang (or was that a yell?). Since Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer was the keynote, people arrived early to ensure good seats. The music playing before it started was amazing, it helped to create an excitement in the room that I really had never felt before a keynote before. I had attempted to save a seat for someone up front, but there was just too much demand and had to give it up.

Google today introduced yet another way it is personalizing search results (we talked about social search with the company at SMX). Now Google is letting users "star" search results that they like, just like the star feature in other Google products like Gmail, Reader, and Google News. This almost seems like an obvious move for SERPs now that it is there, but it has not been present until now. Essentially, when you star results you like,

One of the things I love about SEO the most is that even after years of optimization there is still room for improvement. Even the best among us still have potential to improve their websites and blogs. While reading the leading SEO blogs I sometimes encounter basic SEO , usability and trust issues . They're not big enough to write them an email or there are simply too many of them to reach out to each of my friends and mentors in the SEO industry.

Every now and then, there is a discussion about where email stands as social network use becomes the "it" thing. We've all heard mutterings like, "email is dead" and "social media is killing email," but it's just not the case, and there are plenty of reasons why (even if Google thinks it's time to start over ). Last year, we ran a piece titled 10 Reasons Social Media isnt' Replacing Email that got a pretty good response from readers.