Guruji joins India One
Indian search engine Guruji announced it will now power India One. India One is a news portal, while Guruji is an Indian search engine started in this past October.
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December 10, 2006
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Baidu starting blog search engine
People’s Daily Online has reported that Baidu is launching a blog search engine. Just under 20 million people use blogs in the Chinese language.
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December 10, 2006
South Korea bans trading of online currencies
Seems the South Koreans do not like people making money from selling online gaming currencies to other gamers. An IT Week article details this and says that as much as $900 million is being spent on this in South Korea. That is one hell of a market! Makes one want
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November 28, 2006
Google discusses Australian market
An article on the ABC Australia website details Google’s view of the Australian market. Basically they see a lot of growth potential as the media spend is below 10% of total ad spend. Should be a major push to develop Australian advertisers soon.
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November 28, 2006
Japan gets tough with YouTube
Seems the Japanese are pushing copyright violations against YouTube in an effort to have them pull thousands of videos from the site. According to an article in Adotas, YouTube removed about 30,000 videos at the request of the the Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC).
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October 23, 2006
EU video bloggers may be subject to broadcast regulations
An article in the TimesOnline suggested the EU was trying to start requiring video bloggers to be regualted just like any other broadcast media. How they could police this will be the challenge. If the US cannot stop gambling sites I don’t see the EU stopping bloggers.
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October 17, 2006
Google not finding good hires in India
According to the TimesOfIndia, Google is having problems finding the right employees in India. Middle management seems to be an area Google has troubles finding suitable employees in the India area.
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October 17, 2006
Murdoch planning Chinese MySpace
It seems Rupert Murdoch – owner of Fox Media and MySpace – plans on launching a Chinese version of MySpace. If it is half as popular there then I think we will se MySpace as the number one visitied site on the web. The growth of this site has been
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September 20, 2006
Australian Govt. start mobile porn laws
The newspapers in Australia are covering a developing story about laws being started to regulate adult content for mobile phones. Though not strictly search, this restriction can have consequences to other industries on the web. Censorship needs to be regulated more than the people they also seek to limit. Unfortunately
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August 21, 2006
Sina and Sohu get blocked by Chinese authorities
Seems the censorship problems in China have extended to the two largest Chinese portals: Sina and Sohu. Adotas reports that the search engines at both have temporarily been suspended.
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June 20, 2006