An eight-week online video contest dedicated to discovering the hottest original talent on the Internet. Users can send in their submissions by uploading video clips of themselves demonstrating their best talents. The winning entry will be awarded US$50,000 cash and a development deal to star in or produce their own online show on yahoo!.

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It’s really easy, just click here and sign-up. And in 24 hours see your Company appear live on Google results!

AdWords interface upgrade has begun to occur in some advertisers accounts. The new feature added enables AdWords users to preview the status of a keyword in a particular campaign.

When logged in to your AdWords account and selected an appropriate campaign and ad group you could view the information about keyword in a help bubble. Just point your mouse at the magnifying glass icon next to the keyword you are interested in and you can get to know if an ad is showing for this keyword and get helped if the keyword status is not OK.

Those who haven’t found the new feature in their AdWords account yet could still use an Ads Diagnostic Tool though I think the upgrade will cover 100% of accounts soon.

Explore the screen capture places on the DigitalPoin forum to obtain a better idea of how the tool looks like:

Webmasters and active Internet users could experience some changes in rankings and search results in major search engines lately. The index update was announced this Tuesday by Yahoo giving almost no details except for “you’ll see some changes in ranking along with shuffling of the pages that are included in the index”.

And the next day Google employee and famous blogger Matt Cutts published “weather forecast” from Google mentioning both earlier updates and recent ones. Among the upgrades listed are BidDaddy, crawl caching proxy, Supplemental Results feature (a new supplemental index), site: command results accuracy improvement and, sure, recent Page Rank update.

Some changes have already been mentioned but I think we’ll continue noticing some more or less subtle changes.

Even if you don’t consider yourself to be a notorious person there still are ways to go down in history. The easiest and more pleasant of them is launched by Yahoo today. Yahoo Time Capsule encourages internet users all around the world to contribute to the first electronic anthropology project that is expected to become the world’s largest Time Capsule ever created.

The participants are proposed to present themselves and their culture within such topics as Love, Anger, Fun, Sorrow, Faith, Beauty, Past, Now, Hope and You.

The multimedia content will be gathered for a 30 day period and then sealed saved into a digital archive. The Capsule is supposed to be opened on Yahoo 25^th anniversary in 2020 and to represent how people lived in year 2006 to future generations.

Are you still hesitating? Here is the direct URL to shorten your way to global community unity.

SearchMash.com has stirred up quite a bit of intrigue and discussion inthe search engine marketing world lately.Upon initial review, I have to admit the site looks like a random search engine aggregator, but upon closer inspection we see that this is no small time operation. It’s results are similarly grouped like Amazons A9, with side-by-side comparisons. Other features we like are Windows Live ‘infinite scrolling‘ and numbered results.

Danny Sullivan just posted a great piece on the Google mission behind this unique search UI. Also check out Elinor Mills Cnet article relevently titled ‘The other Google Search Site’.

Google Inc. said Monday it’s buying No. 1 Internet video sharing Web site YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock. The deal is regarded as a largely defensive one that leapfrogs Google into a leading role in a burgeoning Internet marketplace.

Valleywag rumored about what might happen, PC World confirmed it, but who knows…
at that price YouTube, a still-unprofitable startup, is the most expensive purchase made by Google during its eight-year history.

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