Google’s earnings data, released a few weeks ago, reveal some interesting facts about search marketing beyond the normal headline figures – including that international revenues have fallen relative to their total turnover – see chart below. (Note that this chart was produced by analysts at WebCertain.com and is provided as
Comscore has released figures showing that Google received a billion searches in June, placing it number one with an 81% share. The largest local search engine was Rediff.com, with a 1.5% share. India is a massive potential and growing market with 23 official languages but where English is the only
A fascinating acquisition has taken place in Russia where Google, which has not traditionally performed well in the Russian search engine market, has paid one of its competitors $50 million for their share of the Begun contextual advertising system. The total acquisition value of Begun was $140 million – but
Yesterday, Google announced its second quarter figures showing that international revenues represented all revenue growth for the last 9 months with the US virtually flatlining. Growth in revenue compared to last year was 39% and 3% compared with the first quarter of the year giving a total quarter turnover of
Abondance brings us further news of the Google book publishing initiative which sees Lyon, France’s second most important city (sorry Marseilles), jumping the gun on Paris and cooperating with Google. The digitisation will involve those books which are out of copyright. The library houses an important collection of books in
India is unusual in having 23 official languages from English and Hindi to Kannada and Telugu – now the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has released ‘cross language search plugins’ which are intended to make search more readily available to the wider spectrum of Indian languages, reports India
According to Vietnamnet, Yahoo is pushing the boat out in terms of new product launches in Vietnam – a market of around 20 million internet users with a largely young profile. Only in April this year, Yahoo appointed Vu Minh Tri as the General Director of Yahoo Vietnam. Vietnam is
Nokia of Finland, which just happens to be the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has partnered with leading Norwegian telecoms company – Telenor – to provide access to various internet services through Nokia’s own internet service Ovi, reports Reuters. The Telenor and Ovi services will be offered to customers in
The largest company in the WebCertain ‘internet companies extract’ of the FT Global 500 is Hong Kong’s China Mobile with a staggering market value of $298 billion, beating Google into a cocked hat in 12th place at a ‘tiny’ $104 billion and after such companies as Microsoft, AT&T, IBM, Vodafone,
A fascinating experiment in internet culture has been launched by Facebook who have localised their interface to the Chinese markets. As the Chinese markets are very concerned about ‘face’ – how will they cope with a ‘face’ book that means that even people you don’t know are described as friends.