It’s Christmas time: Free Wi-Fi at airports
Google is offering free Wi-Fi on airports across all the US from now till the 15 January 2010. It is currently available at 47 airports. A “cool gift” from the search engine which is helping raising money for local non-profit organisations. When connecting to the Wi-Fi network, you have the choice to donate to Engineers […]
Microsoft-Yahoo and Unintended Consequences. Ask Google!
Could the Microsoft-Yahoo deal be the start of something much bigger in terms of the power balances on the web? This post on Search Engine Watch blog examines the potential for the new deal to be the start of a wider chain of events that changes the landscape of the industry. Not everyone agrees. Jack […]
Japanese online mall to expand into US market
According to a report by Adotas, Rakuten – one of the largest Japanese online malls – plans to expand into the United Staes, Europe and China. The company already owns US affiliate portal LinkShare which should help them in their efforts. Interestingly, Rakuten president Hiroshi Mikitani said one of the reasons for expansion was due […]
Spanish web: Speak up! Spanish content is lagging, or so we´re told
Spanish is the third top spoken language in the World, yet a recent Accenture study found that the fact is no indication of it´s performance online. Lets look at the numbers Internet growth in Latin America and Spain just last year was 337% and 375% respectively, yet Internet penetration is still below the European average […]
Jim Lanzone scheduled as keynote speaker at forthcoming SES in Milano, Italy
Jim Lanzone, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Ask.com will attend Search Engine Strategies Italy as a keynote speaker. This is the first Search Engine Strategies Conference in Italy, scheduled on April 26 and 27 in Milano. Ask.com Italia was officially launched in beta on March 8 and opened a European Research Centre in […]
Spain: the FON movement just got bigger
If you haven’t heard of it yet, it won’t be long. And if you’re reading now, you’re about to be impressed. FON is Martin Varsavsky’s latest creation. It’s one of those ideas that makes you think, “Why didn’t I come up with that?” and then you sign up to join. The idea is to make […]
Ask Yahoo!
Yahoo has just announced Yahoo! Answers (Beta). “Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people.” In the beginning there was Ask Jeeves. And then Google Answers.. The difference between Google Answers is, at Google your questions are first answered by google researchers and you need to pay minimum 2.50$ while Yahoo […]
Search is hot for US Hispanics
Recently I came across a statistic that I have been long waiting to see, it was published thanks to a recently released Advertising Age report named “HISPANIC FACT PACK: Annual Guide to Hispanic Advertising & Marketing 2005 Edition”. See following table: This table, which takes into account both English and Spanish speaking Hispanic users, demonstrates […]
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 […]
Warning: Mass local language inbound links can damage your health
Google on their web site say there is almost nothing you can do to harm a website through the building of links from external sites. I unfortunately came across the reason they say almost recently. To a major extent they are right, even links from bad neighbourhoods will not harm you. The logic of course […]