The Google AdWords team, who are celebrating 10 years of AdWords , sent this hilarious video out to advertisers yesterday in 43 different languages - the same number that the AdWords UI works in. The video has been seen over one million times. But, the more pressing question is - how many of you caught the Star Wars reference to "a problem with the Thermal Exhaust Port"? Click to read the rest of this post.

Following Carol Bartz's email , announcing 650 layoffs at Yahoo )just days before the holidays(, Thomas Hawk, a Yahoo employee who works on FlickR - one of the, if not most, successful photos-sharing site in the world - has written an open letter to Carol Bartz airing his frustration towards the Yahoo CEO. He charges Bartz of neglect towards FlickR,

Yesterday Bing announced that specific links that have been 'liked' by your Facebook friends will be highlighted in the search results page. This is a development from the separate set of Facebook results that occasionally appear for generic search queries. Click to read the rest of this post.

Bing has made it easier to find the images you are looking for by automatically sorting your image results into categories. The 'Instant Answer' feature creates a toolbar above the image search results with suggested alterations to your search. Click to read the rest of this post.

To enable users make a better decision whilst searching for tickets to concerts and sporting events, Bing have incorporated FanSnap into Bing Events . Click to read the rest of this post.

With many search and social networks releasing their Top 10 queries and trends for 2010, we thought we'd jump on the bandwagon to find out which were the most popular blog posts )not expert columns( of 2010 on SearchEngineWatch. Click to read the rest of this post.

Google has opened their new web based operating system )OS(, Chrome OS, for limited public beta. The new 'waitless' operating system promises to be extremely fast and extremely secure. Click to read the rest of this post.

Webpronews confirmed this morning that Google's NYC office, located in the historic Port Authority HQ in the 'meatpacking' district of New York will be bought for $1.9 billion. The purchase is notable as the building is huge, an entire avenue wide - of which Google currently occupies only a few floors, so many have speculated that Google is betting on the New York property market . Click to read the rest of this post.

In what looks like a swipe at Amazon and Apple, Google have launched an eBookstore. In reality, Google is doing what it currently does better than web search - pushing web standards and increasing use of the internet - as anything Google does to increase use of the internet, pretty much increases their bottom line too. Click to read the rest of this post.

Goodzer, a local shopping search engine which finds 'nearby' shops that stock the products you are looking for and plots them on a map launched last week ahead of Black Friday. Caught up in the shopping frenzy in New York City, a visiting friend from London, was struggling to find every item they were looking for in the Black Friday sales, so I suggested they try out Goodzer . What follows is a summary of first impressions from a visiting tourist.

SearchIgnite have released research that also suggests that Cyber Monday, the day that online shopping is meant to explode when compared to traditional footfall traffic, could become a thing of the past. As research from other paid search platforms has indicated, shoppers are clicking aswell as hitting the stores on Black Friday, rendering the Cyber Monday distinction almost obsolete. Click to read the rest of this post.

This week, all the large paid search platform providers are telling their Black Friday/Cyber Monday stories. Many are making predictions or offering advice on the trends they are seeing within start of the holiday shopping season based on the advertising budgets they are managing. Yesterday, Efficient Frontier told paid search marketers to increase their advertising budgets and spend more to generate the best possible results from the holiday shopping spree.

As many search marketers in the U.S. retail sector will know, the holiday season simultaneously represents the biggest opportunity and threat to career success. Sales figures from the final months of the calendar year can literally "make or break" a company's annual performance. Kenshoo has created a barometer for examining online holiday shopping trends based on their search marketing software which is used by five of the top ten U.S.

Iranian government officials have been outraged to discover that a Star of David, the symbol of Judaism, is on the roof of the Iran Air headquarters building. Upon discovering the image on Google Earth, Iranian officials demanded its immediate removal. Ynet News broke the story: Click to read the rest of this post.

With the U.S. holiday shopping stampede commencing in approximately 36 hours, tech savvy New Yorkers could develop a strategic advantage in the competition for deal-nabbing. Today, software engineers Dmitry Pakhomkin and Artem Zarutskiy, have launched a location based search engine called Goodzer to find any consumer item in any store of the five boroughs of New York City. Click to read the rest of this post.

Blekko and DuckDuckGo have formed an alliance against search spam. "Both our companies share the same mission of eliminating spam from search so that users get information from the best and most relevant sources on the Web," said Rich Skrenta, CEO of Blekko. This partnership will see unique features of each engine shared across both engines. Click to read the rest of this post.

Research released from SearchIgnite suggest a strong Q4 for the U.S. retail sector ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Retailers have increased their spend on search in Q4 of this year, by 37% YoY when compared to the first half of Q4 2009. This coincides with an increase in consumer spending, with Average Order Value up nearly 21% and conversion rates increasing by nearly 29%. Click to read the rest of this post.