Google has announced it’s first quarter financial results in 2008 showing a 42% increase in turnover (revenues) from the same quarter in 2007. In the same timescale, click volumes have increased by a mere 20% showing the value per click which Google has generated is significantly up. Of course, the
Google has changed its trademark policy for the UK and Ireland bringing it into line with its policy for the US and Canada. What this means in practice is that for trademark complaints relating to its Adwords programme, from now on Google will take NO further action relating to the
A competitive and balanced industry with two search giants fighting it out to deliver better and better services to advertisers and marketers is an appealing prospect. Regrettably, that’s not what a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo is going to deliver. An analysis of the global impact shows that the price is
The Guardian reports on the Russian government pushing for control of the internet inside Russian using Cyrillic characters not just to sit on top of the web pages – but controlling things at a domain level. The issue here is that the Russian suffix .ru tranliterates into Cyrillic as .py
The Schengen agreement has been extended from 15 countries to 24 giving a wider borderless Europe with no internal border controls or checks and an open market of over 400 million people. Coming into force on the 21st December, the Schengen agreement makes physical inter-trade between bordering countries easier to
The first European event in the SMX series got off to a great start with good attendance, excellent speaker content and a very good atmosphere. Stockholm, in the SES series, was always a more intimate occasion with a great deal of networking – and SMX achieved the same with its
Futurezone brings us the news that the online advertising market in Germany is rocketing and expected to exceed €800 million in 2007. That is a 67% over the €480 million seen in 2006. The figures are from the Bundesverbands Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM) run by Germany’s national newspaper
With very little pzazz, Google Adwords has started to feed the pay per click advertising to searches on top French search engine Voila.fr and the also significant Orange.fr – as reported by Abondance. This means Yahoo Search Marketing has lost an important French partner as they previously powered Voila. According