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Slash Lane / AppleInsider : Steve Ballmer praises Apple for creation of iPhone App Store

There are reports that Microsoft is going to do a huge ad push in the UK in an effort to capture market share there. Currently, Microsoft’s Bing has a 3% share of search, whereas Google holds about a 90% share….

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Microsoft Aims To Capture UK Search Market Share with Ads

Moderator: Chris Sherman , Executive Editor, Search Engine Land Speakers: Vanessa Fox , Contributing Editor, Search Engine Land Avinash Kaushik , Analytics Evangelist, Google Inc. Misty Locke , President, Range Online Media & Chief Strategy Officer, iProspect, Range Online Media / iProspect David Roth , Director of Search Engine Marketing, Yahoo! Inc. Hi everyone! It’s the final day of the SMX West conference and I’m leaving it all here. Blog ’til you drop, baby! There’s a good-sized crowd for today’s keynote, a roundtable convo between some heavy hitters of search. Chris welcomes everyone

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Keynote – The State Of The Search Union

John Herrman / Gizmodo : Confirmed: Microsoft’s Project Pink Lives, and It’s Coming to Verizon

Follow all of Bruce Clay’s Liveblogging Coverage of SMX West 2010 here. Session names will take you to the coverage and show you what’s upcoming. Session descriptions link you to the SMX conference site. Enjoy! Day 1: Tuesday, March 2 Time BCI Liveblog Coverage Session Description 9:00 a.m. Keynote Conversation: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Session Description 10:40 a.m. Mobile Paid Search Ads: Real Opportunities Session Description 1:15 p.m. Not Your Father’s AdWords: The New Google Ad Formats Session Description 3:00 p.m. Google’s Personalized Search Revolution Session Description 4:30 p.m. Supercharging Your Descriptions With Sitelinks Session Description Day 2: Wednesday, March 3 Time BCI Liveblog Coverage Session Description 9:15 a.m. Keynote: Peter Norvig, Google Session Description 10:45 a.m. Bring In The Bling Via Bing Cashback Session Description 1:30 p.m. Dealing With Domain Names, URLs, Parameters & All That Jazz – Technical SEO Tactics Session Description 3:15 p.m. Facebook Ad Tactics For Search Marketers Session Description 4:45 p.m. The Need For Speed: Google Says It Matters Session Description Day 3: Thursday, March 4 Time BCI Liveblog Coverage Session Description 9:00 a.m. Keynote – The State Of The Search Union Session Description 10:00 a.m. Microsoft + Yahoo: What’s It All Mean? Session Description 11:30 a.m. Measuring How Search Ads Drive Offline Conversions Session Description 1:30 p.m.

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SMX West 2010 Liveblog Coverage

In an interview on CNBC, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz stated she would have sold Yahoo at $36 when Microsoft was offering, includes a dig at Facebook and admits Yahoo “is really not a Google”. During the interview, shown below, Bartz asks “what is Facebook’s revenue model” while explaining why the company is not Google - “concentrated on search” . Guess YouTube and the other non search products like Gmail don’t count, nor Facebook’s number two traffic ranking behind Google compared to Yahoo’s four after YouTube.

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Yahoo CEO Bartz Says Would Have Sold Yahoo, Mocks Facebook

John P. Falcone / Crave: The gadget blog : TiVo unveils Series4 ‘Premiere’ DVRs with enhanced online integration

Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog : Ballmer: Google leads because ‘they did it right first’

Moderator Greg Sterling , founding principal, Sterling Market Intelligence, asks how many people were in the Steve Ballmer keynote this morning? Everyone raises their hand. Who found it substantive and interesting? Most keep their hand raised. One of the things that came up a number of times in the conversation is the growth of mobile search. Even Ballmer was surprised the volume, the monetization and the clicks in the mobile arena. A user’s search behavior on a mobile device is often much more immediate and focused than it is on a PC, Greg explains. So with that, let’s take a look at the marketing opportunities in mobile search

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Mobile Paid Search Ads: Real Opportunities

Canadian Premier Danny Williams goes to the US for heart surgery. An unapologetic Danny Williams says he was aware his trip to the United States for heart surgery earlier this month would spark outcry, but he concluded his personal health trumped any public fallout over the decision. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Williams said he went to Miami to have a “minimally invasive” surgery for an ailment first detected nearly a year ago, based on the advice of his doctors. “This was my heart, my choice and my health,” Williams said late Monday from his condominium in Sarasota, Fla. “I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics.” But

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