Despite my best efforts, there was no way that I was going to actually manage to blog while I was still at the TED conference this year. I don't know how anyone can do it. I suppose that is why there was such an explosion of tweeting at TED - you can do it on the fly. But if you want to sit down and write anything vaguely coherent, it takes time. And the TED conference isn't about free time. In fact, I managed to get about 10 hours of sleep over the last three nights of TED.

Online Marketing Summit 2010 gets underway in San Diego this week. And Day 3 of the event features a Search Engine Strategies Forum also known as SES San Diego 2010 . Here are some sneak previews. Click to read the rest of this post.

Here are some of the search engine related articles we have found interesting this week: Google Buzz Facing Lawsuit from 31 Million Users? A Florida woman has filed a class action complaint in San Jose federal court alleging that Google Buzz shared personal data without consent. (Marketing Pilgrim Feb 18 2010) 11 handy Google Buzz tips Bend it, shape it, any way you want it' (TechRadar Feb 2010) Bing Indexing New Content & Sites Faster?

This week Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) announced that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission. This means that Yahoo! will close down its own search engine and start using Bing search results instead, probably as early as next week. And then they were two This is a historical moment.

Love it or hate it, Clear Channel Radio is pretty much inescapable; the organization claims to have a weekly audience of 110 million listeners, which represents about one-third of America's population. It could be quite important, then, that some people who work for the omnipresent radio entity have taken a liking to Google Wave. Dennis Elliott, a Web manager at Clear Channel, in fact reached out to Google with some compliments,

The Google/China controversy has got a new chapter. The cyber attacks have been traced back to two Chinese schools. As we reported in January Google practically declared war on the Chinese government after they discovered serious cyber attacks at their own servers. It seems the hackers were after both business information and information on Chinese dissidents.

Posted by randfish Last week I spent a day with small business owners in Glasgow (pronounced glaz-go), Scotland teaching the basics of online marketing and SEO. It was a remarkable experience to be faced with such a different crowd than what I'm used to. As a comparison, the week prior, I'd been in Mountain View presenting to the Silicon Valley Search Engine Roundtable , comprised of heads of SEO and marketing directors from Fortune 500 companies - all very savvy operators.