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Teachable Moments: Top Kids’ Searches Include Sex and Porn

Teachable Moments: Top Kids

The news won’t come as a surprise to many parents or others tasked with keeping on eye on childrens’ online behavior, but Symantec’s OnlineFamily.Norton Internet filtering service has identified the top services conducted by children. Some of the results are unsurprising: kids are searching for "YouTube," "Google," "Miley Cyrus," "Taylor Swift," "Fred" (for Fred Figglehorn), eBay, Craigslist, MySpace, and Facebook. Perhaps even less surprising, "sex" and "porn" made it into the top ten kids’ search terms, landing at number four and six, respectively.

AOL, Yahoo Recap 2008 Internet Searching

AOL, Yahoo Recap 2008 Internet Searching

It’s become an annual tradition: toward the end of every year, the major Internet search engines crunch their numbers, compile their statistics, and (it sometimes seems) just make stuff up in an effort to present an overview of Internet users’ search habits for the year. Yahoo and AOL are first out of the gate this year, respectively announcing their 2008 Year in Review and 2008 Year End Hot Searches, respectively.

And what do these lists have in common? Why, that would be Britney. And a few other names you might recognize.

TicketMaster Buys TicketsNow

Major ticket broker TicketMaster has announced a definitive agreement to acquire popular online ticket reseller TicketsNow for an undisclosed amount. TicketMaster, a subsidiary of of Barry Diller’s IAC media empire—which also runs search engine Ask.com and online dating service Match.com—will use the acquisition to give it a leg-up in the increasingly competitive ticket resale market. TicketMaster also plans to leverage its relationships with pro sports leagues to bring ticket validation and electronic ticket delivery to the ticket resale market.

Disney Tries to Enrich Music CDs with CDVU+

Disney Tries to Enrich Music CDs with CDVU+

Disney music label Hollywood Records is looking to offset the industry-wide decline in traditional music CD sales by offering up a new CD format which packs discs with exclusive digital extras. Dubbed CDVU+ (CD View Plus), the discs will feature traditional music tracks, but replace the standard CD booklet and jewel case packaging with recyclable packaging on on-disc exclusive content, including images, song lyrics, video clips, and other media. The idea is to convince consumers traditional music CDs are still a good value.

Warriors Come Out To Play on PSP

Warriors Come Out To Play on PSP

Just when you thought video game violence had already pushed the limits of acceptability and good taste…now Rockstar Games is taking it retro.

Rockstar Games announced today it is adapting the 1979 cult film The Warriors as a game for Sony’s Playstation Portable (PSP) system.

Never mind that many PSP owners weren’t even born when the movie hit theaters.

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