About one month ago, Google and Yahoo joined the Australian Library and Information Association and the Inspire Foundation in protesting an Internet filter that's meant to affect all of Australia. Now, the country's government has processed their submissions, and the situation has started to receive a lot more attention. The Sydney Morning Herald published an article today titled "Google, Yahoo slam web filtering plan." The article quoted Google as stating,

by Mike Krumboltz This morning, President Obama signed the historic and controversial health care bill into law. The ceremony was, of course, well attended and highly searched on. But some of the biggest Web searches were spurred by unscripted and unexplained moments. Here's a quick roundup of what people wanted to know... Did Biden just say that? Vice President Biden is, by all accounts, an incredibly accomplished man.

If you're not following our Twitter feed, you might no know we're at Search Engine Strategies in New York right now. During this morning's session on what's next in search, Stefan Weitz from our Bing team was on hand to explain how the team is striving.

First off, I do not believe the real-time web is only about new content that's published quickly, in response to real-world developments. I believe the real-time web is more appropriately defined as web-accessible material that people are interested in, right now. In this sense, the real-time web is really more about the "attention frontier" of people on the web, rather than a technical timing property of the underlying material itself. Click to read the rest of this post.

Bing barnburner at SES NY When it comes to conferences, March, indeed, is madness. Lets quickly recount. March tipped off with a bang (or bing! if you may) with Steve Ballmer and Danny Sullivan chatted search and more at SMX West in Santa Clara. Next, we ran the ball up the court to Portlands Searchfest , where Stefan Weitz was handsomely rewarded for delivering the keynote. Onwards to SXSWi in Austin another city,

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Ava Sambora (Searches increased by +11,302%). The daughter of actress Heather Lockler and Bon Jovi rocker Richie Sambora hit the runway for her modeling debut . (She's 12.) Isla Fisher (+10,779%). After a six-year engagement, the actress married funny man Sacha Baron ("Borat") Cohen. Buzz Aldrin (2,403%). The space man got an "A" for his dancing efforts on "Dancing with the Stars," but that's about it .

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Google's experiments with integrating more of its search adverting experience within Google Maps continued March 22 with the revelation that the company is now serving up prices for some hotel listings. When the small portion of users for whom this feature is currently available search for hotels on Google Maps, they'll be able to enter the dates they plan to stay and see current prices for some hotel listings.

In case you were wondering, Twitter is not killing blogging. No matter how many times this is said, there is still this notion out there that blogs aren't needed when you can simply express what you're feeling to the audience who is interested through Twitter (or Facebook or other social networks). The fact of the matter is, yes - you can do this with Twitter or Facebook, but blogs exist just the same, and the blogs and social networks frequently complement one another.

Digg has launched some new Digg Buttons and a widget generator for publishers, which the company refers to as updated tools to improve speed, usability and flexibility of integrations for publishers. A representative for Digg tells WebProNews the updated tools are "one of the many steps we're taking in advance of the official release of the new version of Digg to make the user experience more inviting and the publisher experience more customized and measurable.