Brazil’s very own version of the Baidu search engine, Baidu Busca, went live on July 17th without much fanfare. More like a quiet chess move than a carnival parade, it’s not yet posing any threat to major players such as … Read More
Seznam.cz, a search engine in the Czech Republic which is still holding a vast number of users, recently announced changes that are about to affect mainly businesses in the Czech market including branches of international companies. The most important change … Read More
Word spread around of another Google Panda update in the SEO world. However, Matt Cutts later tweeted it was just an update to the diversity of domains in search results. At a recent SEO seminar in Australia, all involved in the … Read More
In times of Economic Crisis there is a focus on both the cost side and the income side of a Nation’s Budget. On the cost side most European countries are applying austerity policies to reduce the spending and the Budget … Read More
Data privacy is a trending topic at the moment. Regulations and laws on cookies technology usage is now key. Most websites will run a cookies based web analytical tool or software like Google Analytics. Over 55 per cent of all … Read More
SaveurBière.com has been sentenced and fined a 10000euro fine by the Cour d’Appel de Douai, France (court of appeals of Douai) for abusive SEO tactics & techniques. Google did not think those techniques were outside its guidelines… The story 2007, … Read More
As a board member of SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Association and a multilingual internet marketer, I need to weigh in on many things when I consult my clients and one of them is what search engine to choose to … Read More
The war between Interflora and Marks & Spencer has been on-going for some time now, here is a quick wrap up of the situation: Interflora sued M&S in 2009 for bidding on its trademark in the UK (when a user … Read More
One hundred and fifty million European citizens shops over the internet. Thirty million of them shop cross border online in the EU. European cross border shoppers spend on average € 800 a year, i.e. a total of 24 billion €uro. … Read More
The Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance is finally coming to fruition with marketers and advertisers in Europe beginning to feel the effects of the partnership in early 2010. In advance of his session at the International Search Summit Munich on … Read More
Today Monday November 29th is ‘Cyber Monday‘. The biggest shopping day of the year? Or is it Monday December 6th 2010 referred as ‘Mega Monday‘ where sales are expected to hit over €uro 1million per minute… October 2010, IMRG Capgemini … Read More
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Since the 24th November last year, European country governments are required to legislate for better electronic privacy — which includes bringing in much more transparency over the use of the “Cookie”. The way European Union law develops is designed to … Read More
Pakistan has become the latest country to censor internet access following so called sacrilegious content being posted on Facebook and YouTube. A Facebook competition which invited users to post drawings and images representing the prophet Mohammed has sparked outrage amongst … Read More
The Official Google Blog has been restating the policy of Google at handling government interference in its products noting that Google products from search and Blogger to YouTube and Google Docs have been blocked in 25 of the 100 countries … Read More
