Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Local Search for Little Biz; What are Good Links, Anymore?; Yahoo Gains, Google Declines, and MSN Plummets for Q2 2008 Search Ads; and more.

Darren Lynn Bousman has a release date (November 7th) for his next film, Repo! The Genetic Opera, and a newly revamped official site to go with it.

He's taken his sweet time finishing it, but Quentin Tarantino has apparently sent out his forever-in-the-works, finally-completed script for Inglorious Bastards. Let the bidding war commence!

Wondering which trailers you'll see before your opening night screening of The Dark Knight on the 18th? The folks at ComingSoon think they have the answer.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The team behind critical hit television drama "The Wire" brings the Iraq War into U.S. living rooms this Sunday in HBO's "Generation Kill," taking on what has proven to be a dangerous minefield for Hollywood.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Colombian movie director Simon Brand is teaming up with producers in Hollywood and his native country to bring to the big screen the story of last week's dramatic rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages in Colombia.

Google's hosted office suite Google Docs has been down for more than 30 minutes, rendering documents inaccessible and users frustrated. Short outages are not uncommon, but as the downtime extends this morning it seems a good time to ask - how long is too long for you? At what point would you personally deem a web service too unstable to use, and presuming that varies from service to service, what's your requirement for Google Docs? Update:Afte
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Google today announced that it has teamed up with eBay and PayPal to fight phishing scams more effectively. Starting today, Google will authenticate every email that claims to be from 'paypal.com' or 'ebay.com.' If a message fails these checks, Google will reject the message and not, as it often did before, allow it through and display a warning message. PayPal and eBay phishing scams are probably some of the most prevalent forms of online fraud
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What are the number one problems facing today's social networks? According to the young developer Vladislav Chernyshov they are: privacy issues, distraction and time-wasting, quantity over quality, ads, and lack of control over your identity. That's why he, Dmitry Gorpinchenko, and Andrew Chernyh, all students at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU) in Russia, have founded Genome, an upcoming next-generation social networking service whi
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URL shorteners like TinyURL are a wildly popular way to share long links over email, IM, microblogging and other contexts. The millions of shortcuts that have been created through such services represent a huge opportunity to capture interesting data - but to date those opportunities have all just gone down the drain. Bit.ly, a new URL shortening service from the innovation network Betaworks, is launching today with a staggering feature set f
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Leighton Meester showed off two of our favorite parts of Gossip Girl ? the fashion and the gadgets ? hard at work on the set on Long Island yesterday. We're excited to see what's in store with all the drama, but it looks like Blair Waldorf isn't going to have any trouble leaving Chuck Bass in the dust. Beyond the story, everyone is already excited to get their hands on all the new outfits from the show, starting with this colorful look only Blair
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As if the Beckinsale family couldn't get any better looking ? now they have a cute new addition that will make it hard to decide who to stare at, the puppy or hot Len. Gorgeous Kate took her daughter Lily and a friend shopping in LA yesterday, but the real treat was the adorable furball in Kate's arms. We love ourselves a new puppy alert and while we know that Kate and Len are big fans of kittens, apparently their hearts are big enough for pupp
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Yesterday Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves welcomed a baby boy in LA, while across the country Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were enjoying their first day with their newborn girl, Sunday Rose. We're so excited about both new additions, but tell us ? which brand new celebrity baby are you more excited to see? Splash News Online and Source Which New Celebrity Baby Are You More Excited to See? Baby Boy McConaughey ? I can't wait t
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Cruz Beckham flashed a big smile while Romeo rocked out to some tunes as they walked through Heathrow Airport in London with mom today. The boys look happy to be back home even without dad or big brother Brooklyn with them on the trip. Victoria showed off quite a tan after a weekend in Telluride with the Cruises to celebrate the Fourth of July American-style before heading back to their native England. David will be missing three of his biggest c
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"Maliki Suggests U.S. Troop Timetable: Iraqi Premier's Remarks Reflect Political Plight" -- Today's Washington Post front page. "Al-Maliki: Iraq Defeated Terrorism." -- Not today's Washington Post front page. (Foxnews.com.) The Fox site used that headline for an AP dispatch on Sunday: Iraq's prime minister said yesterday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing confidence after recent crackdowns against Sunni e
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Near the end of Tuesday?s CBS "Early Show" there was a taped segment of co-host Julie Chen talking to the executive producer of the CBS reality show "Big Brother," Allison Grodner, who previewed some of the contestants in the show?s new season: "Dan is a Catholic school teacher from Michigan. He really doesn't think women are equal. And he felt really strongly, especially, about the possibility that Hillary Clinton would have become president. He
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I believe the Washington Post knows perfectly well that the word "censor" does not belong in the lead of today's Juliet Eilperin story, but the editors left it in (or inserted it?) anyway. The story, "Cheney Aides Altered EPA Testimony, Agency Official Says Ex-Administrator Says Official From Vice President's Office Edited Out Six Pages," begins: Members of Vice President Cheney's staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal officia
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They make Reverend Wright and Trinity United disappear The Media,Lining it Up And for their next trick, the media will put Illinois Senator Barack Obama?s liberalism back in his hat. On Sunday, the Washington Post?s Jonathan Weisman gave us a 1,152 word news-ish story entitled ?Obama Addresses His Faith?, which was a glowingly open forum for Obama to deliver ?a highly personal account of his spiritual journey? and in which he proffered ?a pr
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