Amazon.com is launching a new TV advertising campaign that invites its customers to create their own commercials and submit them to the company for a chance to win $20,000 in Amazon gift cards.Beginning today, customers can upload their "" submissions.

Last week I the forthcoming Bingathon being on June 8th. There were some about the LIVE event. Some commenters made it clear that you had no desire in watching the event, while some seemed eager to tune in.Well no matter

Update: Google has posted more about Rajeev .Original Article: Rajeev Motwani, an angel investor and Stanford professor, who served as something of a mentor to the Google co-founders as they were getting Google off the ground, was found dead in

Recent financial headlines may have made it sound like the "all clear" would soon be sounded, but at least one Benchmark Capital analyst thinks we should still keep our figurative heads down. Clayton Moran came to this conclusion while researching

Sorry, Bing fans, but Microsoft's new search engine seems to have stumbled before it even cleared the figurative gates. Fresh statistics from two different sources indicate that visits to Bing are already dropping.Bing's first few days of existence were very

Google has teamed up with the to create a design competition to design a "simple shelter for a specific geographic location anywhere in the world." Contestants will use Google's SketchUp, Google earth, and Google 3D Warehouse to design, geo-locate, and

Today, on the heels of my "" article, released an update to their service. It's a very small, yet vastly appealing feature entitled "View Non-Mutuals".With View Non-Mutuals you can click on the tab, select View Non-Mutuals and Twellow will show

Twitter users who are tired of falling victim to hoaxes may soon receive some help. Perhaps in response to recent problems involving Kanye West, Phil Spector, and Tony La Russa, cofounder Biz Stone announced a Verified Accounts program that should

North Korea on Monday found two American journalists guilty of illegal entry and sentenced them each to 12 years of hard labor.The Central Court, the North's highest court, held the trial of the two U.S. journalists, Laura Ling and Euna

ESPN The Magazine has begun charging for access to its online content.The magazine announced on its website that its online version, ESPNTheMag.com was merging with the service, which is available for $6.95 a month, or $39.95 a year for premium

Research reported by says that Microsoft's new Bing search engine has taken over Yahoo for the second place slot in search market share. Clearly, it's getting a lot of attention since it just launched, so let's keep this in context.

Leave it to Google to not forget about the little guys. By introducing the Western Union Quick Cash payment option in seven countries, the search giant is trying to make it easier for people in more rural settings to receive

AT&T announced today that it will begin offering the Apple iPhone 3G S on June 19th. People will be able to preorder them starting today at 5pm ET. "iPhone 3G S is the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet, and we're

DMOZ has now officially been around for 11 years. AOL is honoring this birthday with a blog post on the AOL Search Blog. It :From its humble beginnings 11 years ago, DMOZ has grown to be the largest human-edited directory

Update: Microsoft Bing General Manager Mike Nichols has addressed the situation in a blog post. He :So for right now, we wanted to let people know that you can add "adlt=strict" to the end of a query and no matter

PayPal requires reserves for a percentage of sellers. That percentage is less than 1% according to the company. PayPal likens the reserves to a security deposit to cover future chargebacks and reversals. Since PayPal began this practice, they have had

A new dictionary site called was launched today, although even the creators had to settle for the "dictionary" description for lack of a better word. I would call it some kind of a definition search engine. It was founded by

MySpace's first international hire is moving on. Jay Stevens, who was one of the founding members of the MySpace UK team and more recently held the title "Senior Vice President of Audience," has left the social networking company for the

Update: Google has mysteriously added a little promotion to its homepage for "new" gmail voice and video chat. This original article is from November, so unless I'm missing something, it's not exactly a new featue. I guess they just want

If you believe the results of a new survey, Google's defeat may not be far off. One News Page talked to more than 1,000 people, and 55 percent of them supposedly said that they could see themselves replacing Google with