by Mike Krumboltz Once upon a time there was a man named Billy Mitchell . He wore denim, rocked a mullet, and made award-winning hot sauce in his spare time. Obviously, he was a man with which you do not mess. That was especially true when it came to Donkey Kong. For years, Mitchell held the world's highest score on the famous arcade classic. But then, there came another challenger to the throne. A teacher named Steve Wiebe . Wiebe, and underdog all his life,

by Mike Krumboltz Ever try to count all the stars in the sky? Don't. Scientists recently announced that there may be a billion (that's with a "b") more stars out there than they originally thought. A buzzy article from the Discovery News explains that astronomers "may have underestimated the tally of galaxies in some parts of the universe by as much as 90 percent." How could sky watchers have missed so many stars? Apparently,

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Resellers are businesses that handle adCenter accounts for hundreds or thousands of clients, usually small businesses. Resellers are also known as "aggregators." If you are developing systems using the API for one of these resellers, there are some best practices that you'll want to keep in mind. You should use the provided code samples in the MSDN adCenter API documentation for guidance. As a rule of thumb,

For our most recent release we have a mixed bag of improvements and new features. Search refinement and graphing â?" narrowing results by 1 day?! In some cases that might as well be a year! You can now narrow from the previous limit of 1 day, down to 5 minutes. Try it for yourself here . We also noticed that quite often while narrowing your search criteria, it can be extremely frustrating to not get the exactly level of granularity you want.

Sometime this month, Googlers who work on Android probably earned the right to pop the corks on a few bottles of champagne. New stats from AdMob (which unfortunately only run through February) indicate that Android was poised to pass the iPhone in terms of U.S. market share. AdMob found that the iPhone had a slight edge at the end of February: 44 percent versus 42 percent.

It's March Madness! Sweet Sixteen Baby! Maryland and Georgetown are out, but the Tourney is still on! Office workers around the US are looking at their watches, waiting to get off work and head to the local sports bar or someone's house to kick back, toss back a few cold ones, and see who makes it through the weekend to advance, and who gets sent home. The East Coast may be getting out in time to catch tonight's games,

For the first time ever weekly Internet usage of online Canadians has surpassed the number of hours spent watching television, according to a new report by Ipsos Reid. Over all online Canadians are now spending more than 18 hours a week online, compared to 16.9 hours watching television. Internet usage is up from 14.9 hours last year. The number of hours watching television also increased in the last year, rising from 15.8 hours.

The city of Orlando loves Google, and it's not hard to understand why - according to the city's own estimates, switching to Google Apps cut its IT costs by a massive amount. So now Orlando's CIO, Conrad Cross, is returning the favor (and maybe helping Orlando secure a special prize) by spreading the Google gospel. Cross wrote a post that went up on the Official Google Enterprise Blog this afternoon, and in it, he stated, "If we were to keep our current system,

Moderator: Adam Audette Shari Thurow Maile Ohye Anthony Long This panel focused on various tactics to control duplicate content for SEO purposes. It's always a great topic because, while the general guidelines are clear, solving duplicate content efficiently always depends on the specific situation. There is lots of nuance involved in this topic. Shari is up first,