For you SEM managers and planners alike, Google just introduced Adwords for Mobile.   SEM professionals now have access to their accounts’ key alerts and statistics, enabling them the ability to make quick changes even when they’re away from their computers.

Adwords for mobile can be customized based on each user’s account preferences and allows users to view and make basic edits to campaigns and keywords.  If more advanced edits are needed, simply switch to the desktop version of AdWords through a link at the bottom of the screen.  I personally found it to be quite helpful in a pinch.

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Yes, you too can be a blonde

Upload your image to Hairmixer and paste your mug to some celebrity hair. I’m using Reese Witherspoon’s hair today – now how hot is that?
Yeah, I know – it’s creepy as all Hell, but still pretty fun.

via newser

Highlights:
1. SUN Microsystems: An acronym for Stanford University Network, the school where the founders met.

2. Cisco: Not an acronym, as often assumed. It’s just San Francisco without the San Fran, which is why the “c” was not capitalized originally.

3. Apple: The company was late in filing for a name and trademark, and Steve Jobs issued an ultimatum: Come up with something better than Apple. Didn’t happen.

4. Microsoft: Makes MICROcomputer SOFTware.

5. Oracle: The company grew out of a CIA project codenamed “Oracle” that was ditched. The founders took the name and ran.

6. Sony: “Doesn’t mean anything in Japanese, and there is no Mr Sony.” Founder Akio Morita was just trying not to alienate foreign customers. His pick comes from “sonus,” Latin for sound, combined with the popular expression “sonny boy.”

7. Google: The founders had settled on “googol,” a one with 100 zeroes after it, to signify their ambitions. But an early investor (one of those SUN guys, again) wrote “Google” on a check. So they changed the name so they could cash it.

Not to be outdone in the iPhone apps department, Yahoo! is getting onboard with a few additional apps of their own.  Yahoo!’s recently launched Sketch-A-Search and Yahoo! Search App take Google’s Mobile App to the next level.

The Sketch-A-Search allows users to quickly find restaurants (other categories to launch on an ongoing basis) simply by drawing a circle around the general area on a map.  This comes in handy when you have neither the zip code nor the name of the area where you’re searching.  Once an area of the map is identified, a list of restaurants appears on the screen; by clicking on a restaurant one can read reviews, see pictures, prices and can even narrow down by type of cuisine, ambience and/or rating.  It’s fun to play with too.

The Yahoo! Search App offers “a fast and beautiful experience that integrates voice search, embedded maps, and information from Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! News, and other sources that appears directly in the results.”

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Search engines have shaped the way we the consumer surf the web, the way we advertise, and now has infiltrated our music. In this clip, Google and Yahoo! duke it out to be the grand master MC of Search Engines…

Interesting, yet ridiculous, this video was definitely made from someone who hates Google.

This video was prepared by Dorling Kindersley Books. It was originally created for an internal sales conference, but the video was such a hit internally that it is now being shared externally. It is very powerful messaging.

Be sure to watch the whole vid. You will not be let down.

To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day today wear something green and enjoy yourself full-heartedly. Here is a song by the greatest crooner of all time (Bing Crosby) to awaken the leprechaun in you. Enjoy it while you can….today is the only day that the luck of the Irish is yours to partake in

Social Media at it’s finest!

Experian® Hitwise® announced last week that Google accounted for 70.95 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Feb. 27, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 14.57 percent, 9.70 percent and 2.84 percent, respectively. The remaining 73 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.94 percent of U.S. searches.

Important to note is that Bing increased its share of US searches for the third straight month.