  I discuss recent progress in dark matter searches, focusing in particular on
how rigorous modeling the dark matter distribution in the Galaxy and in its
satellite galaxies improves our interpretation of the limits on the
annihilation and elastic scattering cross sections. Looking forward to indirect
and direct searches that will operate during the next decade, I review methods
for extracting the properties of the dark matter in these experiments in the
presence of unknown Galactic model parameters.
