4 local e-commerce websites that are beating Amazon in 2024
When you think of e-commerce, your mind probably goes straight to the global online shopping behemoth Amazon. Amazon is so strong that its dominance can seem absolute – but there are in fact many markets where it is not the most popular destination for online shoppers. In this blog post, we will explore four e-commerce […]
Google expands new trademark policy – but sidesteps Europe
Following the expansion of their trademark policy to the UK last year, Google has widened its looser trademark policy which basically allows all-comers to bid on trademark keywords increasing the cost of trademark advertising via the number one search engine and allowing competitors to aggressively buy each others ‘marks. The new change expands the ‘we […]
SEM Conference Bulgaria – 2009
For the first time a search engine marketing conference if to take place in Bulgaria. The event is named “SEO Conference 2009” and it has every chance to become *the* web event of the year (in Bulgaria). The main purpose of the conference is to bring together SEO and SEM specialists, site owners and online […]
Vertical search engines in Bulgaria
The vertical search field in Bulgaria has seen some development in the last six to 12 months and in this post I will try to cover the current situation and outline the future trends. Only two years ago virtually no vertical search engines existed in the Bulgarian web. There were some rudimentary attempts at vertical […]
Google Bulgaria now handles transliteration
You wont read about it in an official Google post in any of the Google blogs I am aware of, but it’s a fact from like 2 months now – Google does transliteration from Latin letters to Bulgarian letters when searching*. The service is old enough for checks to be made and conclusions to be […]
Google University Bulgaria turns into a PR disaster
Google is about to hold a Google University event in Bulgaria on the 13th of March. The six hour event will take place in the Hilton Hotel in Sofia with a main topic – “How to succesfully advertise in Google”. So far so good – mighty Google turns its eye on Bulgaria and tries to […]
Online advertising grows 60 percent in Bulgaria
In 2007 the amount of money spent on online advertising in Bulgaria has increased with about 60 percent, compared to 2006 spending. Total net in 2007 spending was 12 mln leva (around 9 mln USD), representing a significant growth from the 7.5 mln last year. Expectations are for another big rise in spending in 2008 […]
Diri.bg: New Bulgarian search engine
Dir.bg, one of the first and largest web portals in Bulgaria has just announced on its website the launch of a new standalone service – Diri.bg. “Diri” in Bulgarian is an old-style word for “Tarsi”(v), meaning – “Search”. This new service is in direct competition with the already existing Jabse (info: New Bulgarian search engine […]
Google AdSense receives a warm welcome in Bulgaria
It is now three months since the introduction of AdSense for content in Bulgarian and it sounds like a good time for an overview of the effect it had on the market. Before AdSense Before AdSense came to the scene there were two PPC contextual networks in Bulgaria: Easytrader.bg and Neogen.bg. The first one is […]
iGoogle in 13 new languages
13 may be a fatal number, but obviously not at Google. Announcment on the Official Google Blog says that iGoogle has been localized for 13 new languages. Users speaking – Arabic – Bulgarian – Catalian – Croatian – Icelandic – Indonesian – Latvian – Lithuanian – Malay – Serbian – Slovak – Slovenian and Tagalog […]