SMX: Satya Nadella Keynote Conversation

This session featured Satya Nadella, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Search & Advertising Platform Group, interviewed by Search Engine Land editor-in-chief Danny Sullivan about Nadella’s role and plans for Windows Live Search and Microsoft adCenter.

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Google Shows Who’s Selling Cheap Quality Links

Google recently added the ability for you to report link buyers, which is probably nothing more than a mind control game and a complete waste of time. I recently saw what looked like obvious link buying by Discovery.com. Do you think Google would do anything about it if I reported them? Nope.

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J.K. Rowling, eBay India Mix It Up

J.K. Rowling has made millions of readers happy, but she’s also made eBay India kinda mad.  Hurt, actually, in a sort of whiny-little-kid-with-a-lawyer sense.  The company objects to the way in which Rowling portrayed a court case.

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Local Search Patent Holder Threatens Everybody

Verizon is first on a London-based company's list of lawsuits to file (or licensing agreements to be extracted) after winning the rights to a 1999 patent for location-based search. Next up: any online service offering local search services.

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