Starting tomorrow, Bing will be participating in full force at whats shaping up to be another stellar SMX West (March 2-4, Santa Clara CA). Every SMX show is a special one for Bing. But this one is super-duper special for one reason were bringing Steve Ballmer! This will be Steves first ever conversation with the search community at an industry event. Danny Sullivan , editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land and co-chair of SMX,

Each month, we look at Twitter's growth based on total tweets and new user registrations. This data is supplied by Matthew Daines, the lead developer for our own Twitter app Twellow . In February, the number of new registrations fell, compared to the previous month, and tweeting in general rose, but the growth in the amount of tweeting slowed. "New registrations are down for February by 12.2%. Total tweets for the month rose slightly over January at 7.4%,

CBSSports.com said today it has upgraded its NCAA March Madness on Demand (MMOD) video player. CBS said it will again offer a standard video player in addition to providing viewers with the ability to upgrade to a high-quality player delivering an improved video stream. Upgrades to the player include the ability of viewers of the high-quality player to watch picture-in-picture highlights of ongoing action inside a live video stream from the tournament. Additionally,

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Attention all Search Engine Journal lovers and avid readers out there: we have good news! The new SEJ News iPhone application is now available in the app store. The even better news? It's completely free.   The format of this application is very easy on the eyes. The newest content is located on top, followed by the older posts. Simply scroll down as far back as you like to read the articles.

Sergey Brin's resume before he co-founded Google contains some interesting bits, including two comments hidden in the HTML (this looks authentic, but if you know more please comment). The first one reads: <!-

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Five years ago it was mentioned here that if Google would ever release their own browser, they could built translation into it seamlessly. Two years ago , Google did indeed release a browser, and now that browser includes a translation feature*. When visiting the German blog Spreeblick, for instance, a header note will expand reading: "This page is in [German]. Would you like to translate it? [Translate] [Nope]". If you already speak e.g. German,

When businesses think about search and social media, a great deal of the time, they are thinking about traffic, customer engagement, and brand awareness. While these are all good things to consider, there may be more to that last one that you have spent much time thinking about. Brand awareness goes beyond just having a random customer find your site in a set of search results or through a link from their Facebook news feed.

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Olympics closing ceremonies (Searches increased by +9,192%). Goodbye, Winter Olympics . Michelle Bachelet (+2,979%). The president of earthquake-ravaged Chile is open to international aid . Jennifer Lopez (+672%). The "Saturday Night Live" host spoofed Rihanna in a sendup of "We Are the World." "The Marriage Ref" (+454%). Jerry Seinfeld's new reality/game show effort on NBC is not exactly a match made in heaven .

Greetings from the 4A Transformation 2010 conference in San Francisco. One of the first presentations of the conference was a joint presentation by representatives of the magazine industry - Time Inc., Hearst Corporation, Meredith Corporation, Wenner Media, and Conde Nast. The speakers aimed to dispel several myths about the industry, the value it delivers to consumers and advertisers, and the relative value compared to other forms of media.