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 number of users after the UK – although growth of
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 be filed under a single URL or web address. Until
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% in August against Google’s 2.9% growth. Yahoo meanwhile declined at
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 Google’s Chinese Sales team. Baidu is the leading search engine
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 the European region – particularly including Russia which is surging
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. in their release, Yahoo gives various statistics justifying the acquisition.
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 at the figures reveals that, whilst somewhat moderated, the scale
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 wider chain of events that changes the landscape of the
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 but the Mountain View monolith is most powerful in Brazil,
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 and allowing competitors to aggressively buy each others ‘marks. The