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Back in September, YouTube announced that it was calling upon users of the popular video site to make "informative and creative" videos to embed in YouTube's own help center.

Covering industry news, naturally I read a lot of press releases. Sometimes they're sent directly to me or our news team as a whole, sometimes I find them online through PR wires, and sometimes I will find them on the companies' websites.

Microsoft Live Search unveiled its Webmaster Center Fall Update today, which includes two new features, one for combating malware, the other to simplify the authentication process.

Instructions can sometimes be a little overwhelming; what comes with a new cell phone will keep you occupied for about as long as Stephen King's "The Stand."  It never hurts to have some help available, though, and so Microsoft has introduced the adCenter Learning Center.

A weekend post on the YouTube Blog is calling for users to make "informative, creative" videos to embed in the YouTube Help Center. Categories that users can make videos for include:

Poor video quality, the pointlessness of many clips, and the fact that the site isn't profitable have all kept YouTube from earning much respect.  But a new contest called Project: Report may go a ways towards changing that.

Google took the lid off a new service today, an extension of its Translate service called Google Translation Center that connects translators with people who need content translated into other languages. All compensation arrangements are left to the individuals involved, but Google will store results on its own servers.

If the Ad Review Center hasn't been enabled on your AdSense account, you can either consider this article a preview or completely irrelevant - read on or click back as you please.  But the Center's availability has been expanded, and Google wants publishers to know what it's all about.