Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the International Search Summit in Munich. One of the sessions was held by Managing Director of Yandex Europe, Bernard Lukey, who provided insights into the online Russian marketplace and, needless to … Read More
Social Media Examiner recently released its 4th annual Social Media Marketing Report. The 42-page report sets out to uncover the “who, what, where, when and why” of social media marketing based on more than 3,800 responses from marketers across different … Read More
In my last post here on Multilingual Search I listed 10 brief takeaways from ISS Munich. At the summit, Senior Strategy Consultant at the GlobalWebIndex, Brett Petersen, presented some of the key findings from the company’s sixth wave of research … Read More
Last week’s International Search Summit in Munich provided a wide range of in-depth quality sessions on international SEO, PPC and social media. Many of the recent developments and challenges that the international SEO community is currently facing were addressed at … Read More
The survey on the international impact of Google Places can be filled out here. In February, Google sent out a list of 40 algorithm updates – a new record for the company’s monthly series on search quality. While much immediate … Read More
In a press release earlier today, Yandex announced that it now offers search refiners, helping users to instantly find the results they are looking for as they type in a query. This is a response to unspecified queries, which currently … Read More
Leading technology-focused research and consulting firm, Forrester, recently released a report on European e-commerce and its future impact across 17 major European markets. Overall, online European retail sales are forecast to grow 12.2% annually, reaching a total value of 230.4 … Read More
Spain remains the European country with the highest unemployment rate, currently standing at 22.9 percent. Often, marketing budgets stand first in line to get squeezed whenever companies are facing tough times, but despite deep economic crisis in Spain, online ad … Read More
Tablets are rapidly gaining popularity around the globe, but does user behaviour differ significantly from that of PCs and smartphones? Last week, Russian search giant, Yandex, released a short report on the user patterns of Russian iPad users. Findings showed … Read More
Yesterday, comScore released a report which includes statistics on online user engagement in key markets around the globe. Below are some notable takeaways: 45.3: This is the number of hours the average Canadian spends online each month, placing the hockey-crazy … Read More
Whilst there is nothing ground-breaking about stating that social networking is a worldwide phenomenon, so far information on the global impact of social networking and how usage patterns vary according to countries and regions has been fairly limited. Yesterday, however, … Read More
There is one word that comes to mind when evaluating Baidu’s 2011 financial performance: gangbusters. Although Google CEO and co-founder, Larry Page, used that very same word to describe Google’s Q3 2011 earnings, this seems very applicable to the Chinese … Read More
Facebook might be the world’s biggest social network, rapidly on its way to reach the magical one billion user mark, but it is not the only one. Here are a few others that are highly competitive in their domestic markets: … Read More
Yesterday, comScore released an Overview of European Internet Usage for December 2011. The release, highlighting internet usage in 49 European markets and providing individual reporting on 18 of those markets, shows that the Russian internet audience continues to be Europe’s largest … Read More
How long has it been since you last received an email that came out as absolute gibberish? I do not exactly remember myself, but it has been a long time. There used to be hundreds of different encodings for storing … Read More
