Yandex has just released its financial figures for 2010 and the number one Russian search engine managed to achieve a whopping 43% growth in revenue taking them to $410 million — 88% of this increased revenue related to pure search … Read More
Alibaba has leapt ahead of Google in terms of the share of online advertising revenue it earns in China – its home market. According to Analysys International, Alibaba’s Taoboa keyword advertising and the further development of its interactive advertising offer … Read More
Leading Russian search engine Yandex, has introduced a new method of predicting user intent in order to improve the quality of its results and thereby improve relevancy. The Yandex team advise that the system, known as “Spectrum” is based on … Read More
Combining the capabilities of Google Translate with Google Search has long been a feature of international search experiences – but somewhat in the background. Not anymore. Google this week rolled out a feature across the non-English speaking world, which gives … Read More
This week for the 6th time in London, the International Search Summit takes place at The British Library in London. Previewing this particular event is, for once, almost impossible to do because the quality of the speakers and agendas has … Read More
The FT reports today that Alibaba, the Chinese business-to-business search giant, has made its first move to acquire a serious foothold in the US following years of sabre rattling, by buying Vendio.com – an e-commerce platform which allows you to … Read More
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
Russian market-leading search engine Yandex, has opened up access to a Latin-alphabet index it has been compiling for the last two years with most content in the English language. A statement from Yandex explained that the principle objective is to … Read More
The Financial Times reports today that David Wei, Chief Executive of Alibaba.com, has revealed that George Soros has become one of the organisation’s largest shareholders. Mr. Wei also told the FT that Alibaba intends to buy out Yahoo’s stake in … Read More
Greg Jarboe’s status as a great public speaker was confirmed yesterday when the International Search Summit audience voted Greg as its very first ‘Medallion Speaker Award’. WebCertain, which hosts the Summit, introduced the Medallion Award to give audiences more influence … Read More
As the final printer deliveries for Thursday’s International Search Summit trundle through the reception below where I’m sitting, flights are boarded in the US and Europe and final polishing of presentations and content is shaping up, we’re looking forward to … Read More
Since November last year it has been possible to use characters that were not formerly part of the Latin character set used for creating web addresses and URLs. For example, the German umlaut – a character with two dots above … 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
It’s already been a few years since Multilingual-Search.com emerged from a Blogger account to become the serious news source it has become – thanks in large part to the regular contributions from people such as Sante Achille, Motoko Hunt, Kristjan … Read More
Google’s announcement that it is re-directing Chinese users to uncensored Chinese-language results at Google Hong Kong is an historic turning point when one ’empire’ sees its apparently unassailable position as no longer certain. In China it is hugely important to … Read More
