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Tom Cruise competing with gay travel for Google AdWords clicks

On the heels of his interview with Oprah on Friday, actor Tom Cruise (pictured here, trying desperately not to look crazy) has signed up for a Google AdWords account in order to lead the inevitable follow-up searches to his "offical" site, TomCruise.com. For now it's just a countdown clock ticking off the seconds until 9am PST on Monday, May 5th. The ads appear if you enter "tom cruise," as the screenshots from Hollywood Newsroom make clear. But our own tests reveal that he might want to cast a wider net for search terms, because even Google seems to think Cruise, or at least his fans, want to get away on a big, gay boat — and I don't mean the MV Freewinds. More »

11:46 AM on Sat May 3 2008
By Jackson West
2,158 views, 5 comments

Latest by stanfrombrooklyn: If you knew just the tiniest bit about how Google AdWords works, then you'd know that the only reason "Gay Travel" shows up after you typed in "Tom Cruise is Handsome" is because you previously typed "Tom Cruise is Gay". more »

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Tom Cruise's new MacBook Air revealed!

Because you're nosy about it, here's graphical proof that on the Internet, Apple is a much bigger topic than anything else we post about. Yet the video of Gizmodo's cruel CES prank drew 10 times more clicks than our biggest MacBook Air post. Hollywood still crushes all. On Gawker, Nick Denton's mirror post of Tom Cruise's Scientology promo video is closing on 1.5 million views — comparable traffic to all of Valleywag so far this month. It struck me this morning that if I wanted to maximize my Gawker Media traffic bonus pay, I'd stop writing and instead follow Tom Cruise around with a camera. Oh wait, that's what the big pubs actually do. It all makes sense now.

10:15 AM on Fri Jan 18 2008
By Paul Boutin
1,565 views, 6 comments

Latest by OaklandTechie: Nick Denton is my hero for taking on Scientology's lawyers! more »

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Terry Semel recuperating with Tom Cruise

How is Terry Semel recovering from his recently ended and embattled tenure as Yahoo's chief executive? Apparently, he is hanging out with Hollywood buddy, Tom Cruise. Nobody can cheer you up like the laughing, smiling, and hypnotic movie star and Scientologist (if you aren't personally repulsed by the actor). And Tom's such a good listener (when he's not talking, that is). [Photo credit Pop Sugar.]

3:19 PM on Fri Jun 22 2007
By Tim Faulkner
1,780 views, 1 comment

Latest by sample032: It's easy to find things Semel did wrong, but what about things he did right? 1. Not become the official search engine of Scientology 2. Leave more »

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Tomorrow is Caturday!

CONFONZ — Yes, cheezburgers have taken over the IntarWeb. Who are we to go against the grain? Bitching and moaning won't help. The Conference Fonzerelli is still here, though his reign of terror is coming to a rapid end. With the weekend, and the Sea Siren parade coming up, the Fonz needs to trade in his leather jacket for a Spongebob-colored cardboard box. In an effort to get him out the door faster, he's wrapped up a nicely flavored selection of little dots for your mastication. After the jump, the Reiser alibi gets stronger, Semel on a Cruise, the Ballminator gets with L. Ron, and did the WSJ change its story? More »

4:14 PM on Fri May 4 2007
By confonz
1,928 views, 2 comments

Latest by Doug: Exactly. Half of the "blogosphere" would likely stop posting 4chan memes if they had to spend a day in /b/. Also, for good measure "in b4 Desu." more »

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Why it's cooler to work at Yahoo than Google

Blah blah, massage therapist, blah blah, mango lassi machine. Yeah, yeah, Google's not really more fun to work at than Yahoo. Yahoo's way cooler: More »

10:48 AM on Wed Jun 28 2006
By Nick Douglas
4,817 views, 4 comments

Latest by MySpace Cadet: All the perks in the world can't make Mountain View and Sunnyvale cool. While here at the MySpace offices in sunny Beverly Hills, we have sun, sand, cool bands (Method Man was hangin last week), dope events and the most ridiculously hot staff in the tech world (our HR more »

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Yahoo doodles Tom Cruise

Yahoo employees kindly thank Tom Cruise for the free "Mission: Impossible III" tickets: More »

Latest by hulksmash: the bottom picture looks like Tom in MI:3 when he is at the aiport... well kinda... more »

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Tom Cruise metacovered

Elsewhere in Amateurly Edited Video Land: Inside Edition uses the Tom Cruise footage we featured last week. And here's a recording, captured by an original photographer (a Yahoo, I assume). (Stop the video halfway through, unless you're one of those Defamer-reading Hollywood hounds.) More »

5:03 PM on Mon Mar 27 2006
By ndouglas
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Week's best comments: Bruce "Allchin" Campbell

For Blackjack, "MSN" means "Evil Dead":
Whenever I see the name "Jim Allchin" I keep thinking it's the alias Bruce Campbell uses when staying near where he's shooting a movie.
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8:08 PM on Fri Mar 24 2006
By ndouglas
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Tom Cruise and Sky Dayton -- the gatekeeper and the keymaster to meet

Fresh from his Yahoo gig, Tom Cruise is headed off to a Scientology temple today. This tip just in: More »

12:12 PM on Wed Mar 22 2006
By ndouglas
311 views, 2 comments

Latest by Jackson West: It's my understanding that Sky was born into it (hence his enrollment at a Scientology boarding school), and that Tom got into it for personal and career reasons during his marriage to Mimi Rodgers, after he'd already made something of a name for himself (he didn't reveal his membership in more »

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Video: Yahoo goes crazy for Cruise

Tom Cruise's Yahoo visit inspired unimaginable professionalism from Yahoo staff. For example, this admiring fan: More »

Latest by openwag: What I don't understand is why she's flipping out in the first place. I mean, Tom Cruise is an idiotic freak who uses a cult in order to control his homosexual impluses. Why in G-d's name does anyone even care about this lunatic anymore? I have no words. more »