MySpace, the popular social networking site has announced plans to roll out a Russian language version to capitalise on the country’s fast-growing Internet advertising business. Alexa currently ranks MySpace in 55th place in Russia but analysts say their competitive advantage lies in coming to a market with mainly weak players.
The Webcertain Search and Social Report 2010 is an updated version of the 2007 report – including more countries and facts and figures on both search and social media. Download the 2010 report now Countries included are: Brazil, Czech Republic, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, The
Prof-Media has issued a formal response to the rumours circulating in the Russian press concerning their delisting on the London Stock Exchange. Prof-Media is the majority share holder in Rambler Media, the company operating the Rambler search engine portal in Russia and the majority shareholder in the PPC engine Begun.ru.
The research group comScore has released their first report looking at worldwide search activity, carried out over the month of August. Interesting reading to those dealing with multilingual marketing and a sign of the growing importance of this sector. The Asia-Pacific region, which includes large markets such as China, Japan
As reported in February, ICANN is continuing attempts to delete the .SU (Soviet Union) domain extension. Pressure has increased after the successful decommissioning of the .YU (Yugoslavia) address this week, where operators for the new extensions .RS for Serbia and .ME for Montenegro agreed to migrate existing users. ICANN has
Estonia’s first ever search marketing conference (E! 10) will be held at 2pm on September 13th at the Sõprus Cinema in Tallinn’s old town. 250+ people are expected for the event organised by Altex Marketing Speakers and their subjects are: Robin Gurney, altex marketing: Driving search engine users to your
This week Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia decided to remove the ability for webmasters to view incoming links to their sites (or backlinks as they are commonly known). Previously this had been possible by two methods, the first using a search operator [link=”www.domain.com”] and secondly through their advanced
According to Verisign, InsideDomaining reports, the Top 3 countries with the highest growth rate for their country code top-level-domain extensions are the following: 1. China: .cn (402% increase) 2. Russia: ru 3. South Korea: .kr China (.cn) has now become the fifth most popular country code extension globally, as Yahoo!
Rambler have taken a controlling 51% stake in the PPC service, Begun.ru. In much the same way as Overture of old, Begun.ru provides a contextual advertising stream to site partners, Rambler being their largest. Rambler previously acquired a 25.1% stake in Begun in 2005 for a purchase price of US$750,000,
Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia with 55% market share, has released a report on the current state of contextual advertising in Russia. Their data comes from their advertising platform, Yandex Direct and covers the period from January 2006 to June 2007. Key Findings Yandex Direct showed 140m adverts