One of Japan’s oldest search sites, goo, has added “encyclopedia search” button on its dictionary search service, “goo dictionary“. This is the first tie-up search service with Wikipedia in Japan. goo dictioary has about 3 million users/month, and one of … Read More
Last weekend saw the launch of the first Internet and Business conference to be held in Russia. It was a prestigious event and most of the companies and individuals shaping the new Runet were in appearance. With the current surge … Read More
Paul Gigot of Fox News interviewed James McGregor, former Wall Street Journal China Bureau Chief and the author of “One Billion Customers: Lessons of from the Frontlines of doing Business in China.” McGregor will be a keynote speaker at adTech … Read More
Yandex, the Russian mega-portal, have released a new auto-focus tool for their PPC system, Yandex Direct. This will give marketers the ability to let the system select similar keyword terms for their adverts. As you might expect the auto-focus is … Read More
Seems Google has come along and grabbed this Aussie’s algorithm. According to an SEOChat article, Google acquired the algorithm developed by a New South Wales University graduate student. The Orion search engine hunts down pages where the content covers a … Read More
A recent survey reported by SPOT & WEB Media Communications Magazine shows an increase in search engine usage as a key element to identify products, independent of their value, prior to purchasing on line or off line. … Read More
Search Engine Watch reports that Google is to open a research and development centre in Russia, run by Sergei Burkov, Founder & CEO of Dulance Google plans to use Russia’s phenomenal engineering talent to help develop great new products both … Read More
Multilingual Search doesn’t normally report on news from search marketing agencies – but the news that Danish search marketing firm Notabene is to float on the Danish stock exchange is somewhat close to home: Rasmus Sørensen of Multilingual Search is … Read More
Nigma.ru have released a press release today to mark their 1st birthday, which was officially on 12th April. The Nigma.ru metasearch engine was developed as a project by the students and graduate students at the psychology faculty of Moscow State … Read More
I stumbled on a new creation of Spurl Ltd, an Iceland-based search engine company. The URL is www.zniff.com and it obviously is still in a testing phase. They claim that you search the entire Web or 8 million Icelandic pages. … Read More
In a move that was praised by the People’s Daily, eleven news websites backed a call for self-censorship and the eradication of pornographic and violent content on the internet . Fourteen portals in China also announced earlier that they were … Read More
Baidu, China’s leading search engine, and Intel signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in the development of Internet search and related applications in China. The two companies will work together to develop search applications for personal computers, laptops, … Read More
The recent allegations of registry mismanagement by Bob Parson have been partially dismissed by EURid spokesman Patrik Lindén as reported by Punto Informatico earlier today. Mr Lindén reportedly stated that manipulations may have occured due to the presence of phantom … Read More
Bigmir.net, the Ukrainian internet statistics site in partnership with Sputnik Media has released their metrics report for March 2006. During March, the Ukrainian internet audience grew 10% (274,000 new users). Bigmir.net estimates that there are nearly 3 million (2,913,193) internet … Read More
Iceland (pop 300.000) is the most web-savvy country – a recent study shows it has the highest concentration of broadband users. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that broadband was also widespread in South Korea, the Netherlands … Read More
