Biz Stone, Co-founder of Twitter, today unveiled "a simple service we're calling Promoted Tweets." Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets that businesses and organizations want to highlight to a wider group of users. Click to read the rest of this post.

comScore Video Metrix today announced that more than 174 million U.S. Internet users watched 28.1 billion videos online in February 2010. Click to read the rest of this post.

One of the popular sessions at SES New York 2010 was entitled, "Selling Search to the C-Suite." It was moderated by Anne F. Kennedy, a member of the SES Advisory Board, the Founder & MP of Beyond Ink, and the FP & CMO of Joblr.net . Following the session, Kennedy interviewed one of the speakers, Fionn Downhill, the CEO and President of Elixir Interactive . Click to read the rest of this post.

According to comScore qSearch , Americans conducted 15.4 billion "core searches" in March 2010, with Google accounting for 65.1 percent search market share. Click to read the rest of this post.

Ari Paparo, Google Director of Product Management, today looked at how better data will help marketers plan and measure their display campaigns in the future. His post appeared on the Official Google Blog . Click to read the rest of this post.

According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism in association with the American Society of News Editors )ASNE( and the Radio Television Digital News Association )RTDNA(, six out of 10 news executives think the Internet is changing the fundamental values of journalism. And their biggest concern is loosening standards of accuracy and verification, much of it tied to the immediacy of the Web. Click to read the rest of this post.

According to Jemima Kiss of Guardian.co.uk , "Google has made its first ever UK acquisition, buying mobile visual search startup Plink for an undisclosed sum." Click to read the rest of this post.

The Official Google Blog has made it official: "We're including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed." Click to read the rest of this post.

The UK Election officially kicked off last week. And according to Renard Sexton's post in the Guardian, " A surprisingly large number of voters are still undecided ." And it may be a fortnight before the fence-sitters, who have their mug on one side of the fence and their wump on the other, start shifting one why or another. Click to read the rest of this post.

Late last night, several blogs were the first to report that Twitter had acquired Atebits, the maker of Tweetie. Okay, so many of the blogs that broke the story are affiliated with newspaper sites. But they're still blogs. Click to read the rest of this post.

If Rip Van Winkle had walked into the Hilton New York to attend SES New York 2010, he might not have realized right away that a revolution had taken place since he'd attended Search Engine Strategies NYC 2004. That's how you get into trouble. Click to read the rest of this post.

Do you know the biggest search marketing challenge facing the search industry? Forrester Research thinks it does. Click to read the rest of this post.

Today, Steve Jobs announced iAds, Apple's mobile ad network Teaming up with ClickZ, we had a play around with the news apps, to start inspecting the marketing opportunities. Click to read the rest of this post.

Conductor released a research report today on the search visibility and optimization effectiveness of the Internet Retailer 500 )IR 500(. The report, entitled " Natural Search Trends of the Internet Retailer 500 , evaluates the natural search visibility of the IR 500's more than 88,000 most expensive paid keywords, on which they spend $1.2 million per day. The study reveals the IR 500 companies average a 'D' visibility score, appearing on page 6 in natural search results.

According to the Official Google Blog , Google Earth played a role in the discovery of a new hominid fossil in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa. "The discovery is one of the most significant palaeoanthropological discoveries in recent times, revealing at least two partial hominid skeletons in remarkable condition, dating to between 1.78 and 1.95 million years," Michael Jones, Chief Technology Advocate at Google, says in a post.

Antti Aapakari, the CEO at Luxus in Finland, made this comment on one of my Rip Van Winkle posts, "Excellent post! You're so right. Things change fast in today's world and you've got to keep up or get left behind." Click to read the rest of this post.

Experian Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 69.97 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending March 27, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask received 15.04 percent, 9.62 percent and 3.44 percent, respectively. The remaining 69 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.93 percent of U.S. searches. Click to read the rest of this post.

Earlier today, I shared three of the 20 videos that Ad Age is "curating" on YouTube's homepage. But now that I've watched the entire playlist, there are three more that you should see. Click to read the rest of this post.

If Rip Van Winkle woke up last month and re-read the agenda for Search Engine Strategies NYC 2004, he might not notice that a revolution had taken place. For example, there were sessions entitled "Introduction to Search Engine Marketing" and "Link Building Basics" six years ago, which were still being held at SES New York 2010. Click to read the rest of this post.

If you go to the YouTube homepage today, you'll see that Ad Age is "curating" the best YouTube ads. The 20 videos spotlighted on the YouTube homepage are all selling something, but they're also entertaining. Click to read the rest of this post.