YouTube is the undisputed king of online video, having recently surpassed Yahoo as the second-most popular U.S. search engine. Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee says the online video service could become an even better video search engine by linking to content that it doesn't have. So what does that mean? Imagine if a search for "The Daily Show" brought back links to full episodes viewable at TheDailyShow.com or Hulu.com instead of linking to Jon Stewart imitators or clips that YouTube was forced to remove. As Gannes says, "Linking to outside videos would build on the search strength of YouTube parent Google …

The departure of Tim Armstrong for AOL presents new challenges for Google, The Wall Street Journal reports, especially as the search giant tries to win new business from big brand advertisers. Armstrong, the former SVP of advertising sales, had a reputation for building strong relationships with big clients, who now have the option of buying graphical and video ads across Google's properties and even on TV shows where Google acts as an advertising broker. Of course, these new businesses represent just a tiny fraction of Google's revenues, and some, like Group M Interaction CEO Rob Norman, think they will struggle …

Are status updates on sites like Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed a new form of communication? At the South by SouthWest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas, digital media execs said the growth in such services heralds the beginning of a new real-time Web that may come to replace email. "We are all in the process of creating e-mail 2.0," said David Sacks, founder of business social network Yammer. "What people want to do on social networks these days is post status updates. We think it's all people want to do." Yammer is a business-to-business social network that aims to make communication …

Experts say spending hours going through listings on Monster or CareerBuilder isn't necessarily the best way to hunt for a job. According to consulting firm CareerXroads, just 12.3% of hires of candidates from outside a company come from those kind of job boards, with about half of that total actually coming from Monster and CareerBuilder. Meanwhile, BusinessWeek says that both companies are losing ground to social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, even Twitter. Here's why: according to the CareerXroads report, which looked at the hiring practices of large companies, referrals from both employess and corporate alumni made up 27.3% of …

When new users sign up to Twitter these days, they are given a list of 100 suggested users to start following. Being on that list can nab you well over 100,000 followers, and TechCrunch notes that several people and organizations on that list already have more than 250,000 followers each. Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who is speaking later this month at MediaPost's OMMA Global Hollywood conference and expo in Los Angeles, thinks that being one of the top 20 on the suggested list could be worth as much as a Superbowl ad within five years. Accordingly, Calacanis, who has 61,266 …

Kara Swisher nabs an exclusive interview with soon-to-be ex-Googler Tim Armstrong on the day of his appointment as the new chairman and CEO of AOL. The move follows months of speculation that Armstrong wanted to leave his post as head of Google's ad sales to run a big company. As Armstrong explains, AOL is a company he already knows well through its long-standing search partnership with Google. The 38-year-old will start on April 7. "For me, it is a great opportunity to go to what I consider a top-five Internet brand," Armstrong tells Swisher, who characterizes the interview as having …

Why is Tim Armstrong, who until yesterday was Google's SVP of ad sales, taking on "mission impossible" by becoming AOL's Chairman and CEO? "To put it simply," says Om Malik, "Armstrong wants to run a public company," something that certainly wasn't going to happen for him at Google, with the "firmly entrenched" triumvirate of Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt running the show. Of course, Armstrong won't be running a public company -- yet. But that's the idea, says Malik, and Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes pretty much said as much in the press release: "(Armstrong will) also be …