According to Chinatechnews Yahoo’s ambitions in China are enormous – targeting a 200% in market share following the successful integration of Alibaba. Tian Jian is reported as saying that Yahoo aims to become the “top search and lifestyle brand in China”. Good luck Yahoo! You’re not going to be alone
Barry Diller launched the new look Butler-less Ask at the Search Engine Strategies show in New York revealing that Ask has a China-based R & D team working on a local search engine for China. He also said that engines trading locally are businesses and have to abide by local
The number of applications for .eu domain names seems to be somewhat tardy in the UK, according to the current figures from Eurid – where Germany – not surprisingly – is way in the lead with 81,000 applications, followed by the Netherlands with 44,000, France at 29,000 and the UK
Germany is the largest e-commerce market in western Europe – and the third economy in the world after only the US and Japan and ahead of China, reminds eMarketer author James Belcher in Germany Online – their latest report. Key findings in the report are that online penetration is over
Ask Jeeves has finally launched in Germany with a German version.. Since it’s acquisition by IAC and the commitment of the company to expand multilingually and worldwide – this has been an expected and welcome move. Multilingual Search announced the launch of Ask in Spain and the acquisition of Excite
Forget ‘pay per call’, PagesJaunes.fr – the French Yellow Pages organisation’s online division – has just launched a free version for its advertisers. From now on, anyone who advertises online will be able to include a free telephone number which gives them the opportunity, says Pages Jaunes “To generate qualified
The Guardian newspaper reports today on a gala event in Shanghai where the rich of China voted on their favourite brands – alongside Ferrari and Armani their favourite search engine brand turns out to be Baidu. We’ve spoken a lot about China in Multilingual Search recently – but as the
AzerNews reports that there are now 7,000 websites registered in Azerbaijan in a wide variety of languages. 3,000 are in the Azeri language, 830 in Turkish, 1,300 in English and 1,600 in Russian. A good example of the linguistic complexity of targeting some less well-known regions of the world. AzerNEWS
Blog – or more correctly – feed search engine Feedster is going through a makeover which will include better handling of languages around the world, says founder Scott Johnson at SES Chicago. He revealed he had spent most of 2005 writing code to remove spam – but alongside that had
At Search Engine Strategies Stockholm, Websidestory Regional Account Manager, Nordic Fulton Yancy published figures showing the tracking company’s view on search engine shares in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden drawing the conclusion that the major local engines are losing ground to the global players. The figures were based on September