So, here is the deal. Search and social media are huge. Each has unequivocally changed the consumer landscape in its own right, effectively putting an end to business as usual. And since both have evolved into global phenomena, this certainly holds true irrespective of the geographic location of the market(s) in
Multi-screen is no longer some fancy buzzword used and applied only by a select, savvy few; it’s the reality. The trend is clear across the board: mobile devices are eating into the PC’s share of the internet traffic pie, and it’s happening at a much faster pace than marketers have
It is with great sadness that we are writing this tribute, having heard the news that Ilya Segalovich, co-founder and CTO of Russia’s biggest search engine, Yandex, has died suddenly at the age of 48. A Yandex statement revealed that Ilya had been diagnosed with a treatable form of cancer
If you frequently surf the international content waters on the web, you’ll have noticed the plethora of articles which state that ‘going global has never been easier’ and that ‘the potential has never been bigger’. While I won’t quibble with those assertions, the sheer abundance of articles treating internationalisation as
In the unlikely event that you’re targeting the 63-letter German keyword Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungs- aufgabenübertragungsgesetz, keep an eye on its search volume over the coming months. Because what is widely acknowledged by linguists as the longest “authentic” word in the German language has officially ceased to exist following a revocation by a
Yandex has today announced an iteration of its personalised search results, which sees the Russian search leader add a new real-time dimension to the personalisation features it launched in December 2012. The roll out back then allowed Yandex to consider users’ broader search history over the medium- and long-term and subsequently
You could be forgiven for running a mile when stumbling upon Google’s rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x” annotation. The name alone sounds quite daunting, doesn’t it? But fear no more. Multilingual web marketing agency Webcertain has created an exhaustive and NON-technical 40+ page guide to Google’s Hreflang construct, which will provide all you multilingual/multiregional
Today, Yandex.Money announced a partnership with Skrill, one of Europe’s leading online payment providers. For online stores that have Russia and CIS on their radar this is good news, as it essentially allows for quicker and easier access to the region’s exponentially growing ecommerce sector. Yandex.Money is Russia’s most well-known
In this week’s much anticipated keynote at ISS London, Chris Sherman and Andy Atkins-Krüger were talking to co-founder and CTO of Yandex, Ilya Segalovich, about everything from user privacy to search personalisation and Yandex’s international operations and ambitions. Here is a modified (and summarised) transcript of the fireside chat. What
With a population that exceeds 1.3 billion, you’d think Chinese businesses have their hands more than full catering to this market alone. While this happens to be the case for most companies, China’s leading tech forces are increasingly eyeing expansion opportunities beyond the country’s domestic borders to keep up past years’ exponential