When Yandex last week launched Wonder, its “experimental” social aggregation app, the initial excitement it must have brought at the Russian Google did not last long. In fact, Facebook pulled the plug just three hours after Wonder went live by blocking the app from accessing its data. Facebook noted that
Today, Yandex has announced a collaboration with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in which Russia’s leading search company will provide its computing resources and data processing technologies, including MatrixNet, to CERN researchers. In return, Yandex gets wide access to extremely large-scale experiment datasets that will help improve its
In a move to cash in on the rapidly increasing demand for mobile internet across Africa and the Middle East, Baidu and Orange have joined forces in an exclusive deal that will see the two companies launch a co-branded version of Baidu’s mobile browser. Launched yesterday for customers of Orange’s
Europe is a region well known for its linguistic diversity and high degree of multilingualism among its citizens. There are 23 officially recognised languages and more than 60 indigenous regional languages. Then on top of this you have many non-indigenous languages that are spoken by migrant communities across Europe, as
In 2012 one story after the other was published here on the site about the massive potential of going global, with especially the rapidly emerging BRIC countries receiving lots of attention. While no one can dispute the great economic potential of targeting these mastodons, many businesses continue to refrain from
Last week, in what can be characterised as a late move, Yandex announced that it has started personalising its results. What particularly struck me following the announcement was the fact that Yandex’s proprietary technology would potentially allow the company to completely personalise the results it displays to users. But it
Given the proliferation of mobile and tablet internet consumption, these days it shouldn’t come as any surprise that by only targeting desktop users you’ll likely leave a lot of potential on the table. However, one thing is being aware of the ever increasing impact mobile devices have on consumer purchasing patterns; another
Dixon Jones, Marketing Director at Majestic SEO and ‘UK Search Personality of the Year’, did an interesting presentation on how back link analysis can provide companies with valuable insights into their own and competitors’ global reach and, perhaps more interestingly, how this data can be used to identify missed opportunity
In October, Facebook launched its Global Pages framework, which provides a helping hand for businesses that cater to an international audience. Simply put, by allowing organisations to merge all separate local brand pages under one URL, it allows for brands to benefit from their global scale through a single global
At 16 million users and rapidly growing, India is one of Twitter’s top growth markets. According to Webcertain’s Global Search & Social Report 2012, India is the world’s by distance fastest growing online market when it comes to both internet- and social media adoption. It was bound to happen sooner
