Raj Kapoor, Global Director of Product Planning & Marketing for Mobile Advertising at Microsoft , offered research and predicted some compelling scenarios in the next 18 months with mobile search combined with display and PPC search campaigns. Raj.

Google's director of research Peter Norvig has video-answered some questions from Reddit (Reddit has an overview of the questions that lets you jump straight to the specific bit).

During the past two weeks, athletes from around the world competed at the Games in Vancouver. While these thousands strove for gold, millions around the world searched for 2010 Winter Olympics , ë°´ì¿ ë²? ë?ê³?ì?¬ë¦¼í"½ (Korean for "Vancouver Winter Olympics"), and Juegos Olimpicos de Invierno 2010 (Spanish for "2010 Olympic Winter Games") using Google search . Now that the medals have been handed out,

Case Study: Digital media agency Sitewire wields the Yahoo! Search Marketing Desktop Tool to cut its campaign management workload by a factor of ten In the decade or so since its invention, untold numbers of businesses large and small have taken advantage of pay-per click advertising to generate more website visits and sales. Unfortunately, these companies sometimes found themselves to be victims of their own success: Having experienced good results with paid search marketing,

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Large billed reed warbler (Searches increased by +2,335%). Afghanistan moves to protect the newly discovered, least-known bird . Dancing With the Stars (+1,060%). The new lineup includes mother of eight reality star Kate Gosselin . David Paterson (+717%). The National Organization of Women have called for the New York governor to resign, due to his alleged involvement in an aide's domestic violence dispute.

Measuring the world's most popular social network is taking the web analytics industry by storm. Click to read the rest of this post.

Expansion of feature allows national phone numbers irregardless of user location. Click to read the rest of this post.

Microsoft Windows users in Europe who have Internet Explorer as their default browser are now being offered a variety of choices. Windows users in Europe will now see a browser " Choice Screen, " designed to give them an effective and unbiased choice between their default and competing web browsers. The European Commission said it welcomes Microsoft's roll-out of web browser choice.

Could the multitude of reviews comparing the Google Android-based Nexus One smartphone have prompted Apple to sue HTC for infringing 20 patents related to its popular iPhone smartphone? That's the first thing I though when Apple announced its suit, which covers patents related to "iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware." Apple CEO Steve Jobs didn't mince words in the press release : We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions,

When a keynote speech for a search marketing conference is expected to be so popular that the organizers, at every opportunity in the last 24 hours, urge attendees to Get There Early, you know it'll be special. Described as CEO Steve Ballmer's first conversation.