According to Inside Facebook the fastest growing European country for Facebook in September was Turkey. Although Turkey is not technically part of the European continent it is applying to become part of the European Union. Turkey also has the largest … Read More
Google announced at SMX East in New York this week that the canonical tag is to be expanded by the end of this year. The canonical tag is basically a tool for telling Google that pages with identical content should … Read More
Clickz’s Jack Marshall brings us the report that Bing has gone over the 10% share mark in the US – a truly remarkable shift. The data is from Nielsen and shows that Bing grew at a rate of over 22% … Read More
The BBC reports that Lee Kai-Fu will leave his post as President of Google Greater China during September adding to a bumpy period for Google in China. After 4 years, he will be replaced by John Liu who currently heads … Read More
Comparing data released by comScore this year and comparing what they said last year, the story emerges the Europe has actually surged ahead in terms of number of searches. This is partly due to the wide number of countries in … Read More
Yahoo has announced it is to acquire Maktoob.com, the leading online community in the Arab world with more than 16.5 million unique users. This also means that Yahoo will acquire control of the original Arabic search engine – Al Araby.com. … Read More
Google’s recent sales performance are generally regarded as ‘slightly down’ or static depending on your point of view. However, as the “Use International Search Marketing – Just Like Google” article I published on Search Engine Watch shows, a deeper look … Read More
Could the Microsoft-Yahoo deal be the start of something much bigger in terms of the power balances on the web? This post on Search Engine Watch blog examines the potential for the new deal to be the start of a … Read More
Via Adage, ComScore has revealed the Google share by market showing the Google domination in many markets alongside discrepancies such as Korea where Google has a dismal share of the market. Western Europe has stronger Google shares than the US … Read More
Following the expansion of their trademark policy to the UK last year, Google has widened its looser trademark policy which basically allows all-comers to bid on trademark keywords increasing the cost of trademark advertising via the number one search engine … Read More
In response to demand from UK and European delegates, the agenda for the upcoming SMX London has been adjusted to focus even more heavily on advanced search engine optimsiation and marketing topics providing a solid training opportunity for European-based search … Read More
Abondance reports that Miva has announced the closure of its French operation. The service will cease on the 28th April and all publishers are to be paid their due fees. Advertisers will also be reimbursed any unspent fees.
Motoko Hunt has won the Inaugural President’s Award from the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO). Motoko has been a consistent and hardworking contributor to Multilingual-Search with great insights on the Japanese search market. We cannot think of anyone more … Read More
China Knowledge reports that Baidu Chief Executive, Robin Li, revealed at the Boao Forum for Asia that Baidu is launching a new advertising programme AND a 3G solution for this year – but has no plans to expand outside of … Read More
Google’s has reported turnover for the first quarter of 2009 at 3% down on the previous quarter globally – but international revenues actually grew by 0.49% from $2,850 billion to $2,864 billion disguising a significant 7.23% fall in US turnover. … Read More
