Russian search engine Yandex, expands into Ukraine
Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, announced today the opening of their portal in Ukraine. This will provide local search, news and information. As Arkady Volozh, General Director of Yandex explains, “Opening a branch in Ukraine will dramatically speed up our technology development for our users there”. Ukraine has a large Russian speaking population which […]
Google Sitemaps now multilingual
The Inside Google Sitemaps blog has just announced that Google Sitemaps’ user interface and documentation are now available in ten additional languages. The newly added languages are: Brazilian Portuguese Dutch French German Italian Korean Russian Simplified Chinese Spanish Traditional Chinese Sitemap submisssion is not limited by the language of the site, as always. Source: Inside […]
Очередной успех Yandex на рынке PPC рекламы
В июне мы рассказывали о новой услуге Yandex Direct этой самой крупной российской поисковой системы. В то время как Yandex с большим отрывом доминирует на российском интернет рынке (его доля составляет здесь 52%), популярность Google среди российских пользователей растет – по последним данным у него 16% (в Июне показатель Google был на отметке 10%). Этот […]
Yandex keeps pace up in Russian PPC Market
Back in June we discussed the launch of Yandex Direct, from Russia’s largest Search Engine. While Yandex still dominates the market with a 52% share, Google has begun to catch up with recent figures showing 16% (a climb of 10% since June). This competition can not have escaped the attention of Yandex and they have […]
Mobile phones, the channel of choice for Russian marketers
Mobile Content Delivery (MCD) is a hot topic in Russia. While recent research puts the internet audience at 16% (17.6m) of the population, 52% of Russians own a mobile phone. Better still, this group has embraced mobile content at rates which put Europe to shame. It is easy to see why this medium is so […]
New survey profiles Russian internet users and sites they visit
A new survey released this week by the ROMIR research group has attempted to profile the average Russian internet user. They have examined how often he/she is likely to go online and what types of web sites they are visiting. The survey was conducted on a sample of 3650 people, aged from 14 years old […]
Google or Yahoo or Ebay might buy worldwide publisher
According to Brand Republic the big online brands could well move into the traditional media by buying a firm called Trader Classified Media. Trader Classified Media (not ‘trade’ as reported elsewhere) owns 575 print titles and 56 web sites in 20 countries including the US, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Russia amongst others. What could […]
Russian RSS Portal launched
This week saw the launch of the first aggregation site for Russian RSS feeds, called Kanban.ru. In the same way as the popular Technorati or Bloglines service Kanban will work to become a central portal for the new RSS format. Artyom Kashehlebov, Kanban project leader, explains in interview that it is important for people to […]
Yandex: PPC and Online Advertising in Russia
Russia is one of those rare areas in the world where Google does not rein supreme. According to Liveinternet, the popular public statistics site, Yandex.ru holds a leading market share of 55-60% with Google trailing at 5-6%. Their own published figures show a similar story. While the engine resembles Yahoo! in their portal services, their […]
Multilingual search to recruit 12 new contributors, says blog editor
Multilingual search is to increase its coverage of European and world news by adding additional contributors to its roster, says Editor Andy Atkins-Krüger. “The news blog was launched almost 3 months ago and has come a long way in a short time. “Our aim was to bring not-in-English search matters to an English-speaking audience and […]