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Smart. they sort of threw out the old playbook and suggested that, you know, maybe we need to try something completely different, be totally unlike any other political website that's sort of grace the webs before and really compete for web users' attention in a way that, you know, answers other websites as well such as buzz feed or other media websites. >> you know, it's interesting. i had a conversation at the end of the year sort of looking back to the 2012 campaign and one of the architects of the obama digital effort said, this is what he said he found when it comes to targeting people usi...

Time on the internet at work is more common than you think. researchers at kansas state university claim between 60 and 80% of screen time at the office is spent cyber loafing. the official term for watching cute animals or shopping online at the office. meanwhile, according to a new survey, more and more web users, 61%, report taking breaks from facebook for weeks at a time. the reasons, everything from changing privacy policies to disagreements to too much drama. sports highlights including major upset in college basketball plus drivers came across a bizarre sight in philly and these fla...

Jenna: right now a new warning of a security problem in microsoft's internet explorer. rick has more on this now, rick. >> this is a problem more than half of all web users use internet explorer, that is the microsoft program that allows people to search the web. the bug was found over the weekend giving hackers a which to get into people's personal computers. microsoft said it was aware of the bug but didn't plan on issuing a patch, a fix that people could download on their computers. now microsoft says engineers are working on a patch and will get it out as soon as it is ready. it a spebgts ...

Welcome back, everybody. the record $500 million -- that's right, $500 million jackpot has lottery fever sweeping the web and the nation ahead of tonight's mega millions drawing. >> with april fools' day this sunday, everyone is searching online for pranks as well as april fools' day. here's yahoo! web life editor heather cabot with all the details. good morning, heather. >> good morning, guys. this week's web users are dreaming about getting rich. at least a teeny tiny chance they could win tonight's mega millions jackpot, the largest in history. the contest spanning 42 states, the district o...

Well, the run-up to the oscars sunday on abc inspired a lot of curiosity this week and a whole lot of searches on yahoo. >> indeed. consumer reaction to the skyrocketing price of gas was another big topic, as you can imagine. yahoo's web life editor heather cabot has the details. good morning to you, heather. >> good morning, guys. with gas prices creeping up to the dreaded $4 a gallon mark, web users are hot on the story. this week on yahoo searches for fuel prices soared up 929%. >> they just raised the prices right now. >> lookups for gas prices by zip code are huge right now as people hunt...