AOL Reveals Top Web, Mobile and Video Searches of 2008 (Centre Daily Times)

The presidential elections dominated user searches this year, according to AOL’s annual lists of top Web, mobile and video searches across more than 40 categories for 2008. But celebrities continued to be hot topics for searchers as well. The rankings are based on the people, places and topics that received the largest volume of Web and mobile search queries on AOL Search, ...

AOL Reveals Top Web, Mobile and Video Searches of 2008 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

NEW YORK----The presidential elections dominated user searches this year, according to AOL’s annual lists of top Web, mobile and video searches across more than 40 categories for 2008.

Popular business directory searches (Crossville Chronicle)

I’m not planning to murder anyone, traffic cocaine, or mastermind an insider junk-bond trade, but it sure would be nice to know I could count on a presidential pardon — you know, just in case the urge struck. Whom do I need to talk to about getting that lined up?

Online shoppers jump the gun seeking bargains (San Francisco Chronicle)

Online merchants are prepared for an onslaught of shoppers Monday, though no one is sure how many people will turn up or how much they'll actually spend. Traditionally, the Monday after Thanksgiving - dubbed Cyber Monday by the National Retail Federation...

Several diagnostic errors uncovered (Fort Frances Times)

By editorial Monday, 1 December 2008 - 3:17pm. WINNIPEG—Documents obtained by the Winnipeg Free Press show one Manitoba woman’s mastectomy may have been unnecessary and several other patients received incomplete diagnoses after their biopsies went missing.

Taliban Militants Free Abducted Afghan Journalists (Nasdaq)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP)--Taliban militants released two Afghan journalists captured three days ago in restive southern Afghanistan, an official and one of the reporters said Sunday.