A News Flash from ANSA publishes the results of a survey on blogs and the quality/reliability of the blogosphere. Splinder, Swg, University of Trieste and Punto Informatico joined forces to interview 4,000 bloggers and blog readers. Blogs are viewed as … Read More
Google has won preliminary approval from China’s Ministry of Information and Industry to provide content in China, however further requirements for final approval are unknown. Baidu.com was granted an Internet news content service license earlier this year. Last year the … Read More
According to “Internet White Paper 2007” by Inpress R&D, Japan’s Internet population is 82.2 Million, which is more than 60% of Japan’s population. The Internet population increased about 10% from 2006. It shows that the age group 50s and up … Read More
Microsoft Corp. and Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., a major Chinese TV manufacturer announced they will jointly develop entertainment products that will link the Internet and television. The Internet has developed as a channel to distribute movies and television programs. Roger … Read More
Mail.ru have launched a new search engine into Runet this week, called “GoGo”. GoGo allows you to search for web pages, pictures, photo and video files. In addition, area search index included Otvety.mail.ru service. The search engine currently indexes 1 … Read More
OLX, the online classified service, have announced their expansion into the Russian market. The company provides a similar service to CraigsList, where users are encouraged to place free classified adverts for products or services. Working already in 35 countries, OLX … Read More
On June 6th, SEMPO Japan has announced the results of their 3rd annual Japanese SEM research at Net Marketing Forum in Tokyo. K. Fukasawa (SEMPO Japan) and Motoko Hunt (SEMPO Asia/Japan) – me! 🙂 gave the presenation. The main findings … Read More
As SEMPO is a fairly unknowned brand in the region it was not many that thought the SEMPO Scandinavian event was going to be as big as it turned out to be! The group managed to attract 120 people to … Read More
Major Chinese portal Sina has signed a partnership deal with Google, according to MarketWatch.com. Google will provide a search box on the Sina pages, while Sina will provide Chinese news to Google. The partnership has been the topic of discussion … Read More
I just found the Google multilingual search tool. It is a good starting point, but remember to try a keyword suggestion tool to find the words that may actually be used. Looking at what the local sites are using for … Read More
C-News reports that Google has launched its first ever advertising campaign in Russia. While usual Google policy is to rely on word of mouth to build support, they have decided to change policy in Runet. Google’s advertising banners appeared on … Read More
This week comScore released a study on the most popular internet properties across Europe. As you would expect, Google is the most popular destination in 13 of the 16 countries surveyed. However the results show that Google has made less … Read More
Rambler Media, the holding group for the Rambler search portal, have published their end of year results for 2006 today. Report highlights: Internet Revenue up 91% on year to US$28.3m (from US$14.8m in 2005) 24.4m unique monthly users for Rambler.ru … Read More
So, finally we will see a Google maps section in Sweden! Great to see it launching but It will probably not be a big difference from the big Google map we have already seen apart from local content. The local … Read More
Yandex, the leading Russian search engine, announced today the opening of a new office in Kiev. One of the main thrusts of the new branch of Yandex will be to develop existing services for Ukrainian users. Ukraine is promising market … Read More
