MSN Japan began to offer MSN search tool bar for enterprises with the Windows desk top search tool for free. This desk top search searches more than 200 types of files in e-mails, documents, image files, music files, video files, … Read More
According to news on SEW is Google currently testing a feature which we know from the Dutch Search Engine Zoeken.nl as keyword-clustering. Google offers this new tool as a “quick result”. We have already seem this tool at Google Base … Read More
“Don’t be evil? Don’t trust Google!” Google was accused by a Korean community site(www.humoruniv.com) of not paying the Korean site for having Google’s AdSense on its Web site for two months. The site was supposed to receive a check of … Read More
Keynote Systems (Nasdaq “KEYN”), conducted a study of 1,200 internet users in China and Google outperformed its competitors in 11 of 13 factors measured. Chris Sherman, Associate Editor at Search Engine Watch blogs about this study and adds some great … Read More
Microsoft’s grand plans to provide free software and services over the internet are predicated on generating ad revenue via adCenter (still in beta) to catch up with Google and Yahoo by offering what they don’t – ads targeted by gender, … Read More
Forget ‘pay per call’, PagesJaunes.fr – the French Yellow Pages organisation’s online division – has just launched a free version for its advertisers. From now on, anyone who advertises online will be able to include a free telephone number which … Read More
The China Search Marketing Tour will visit Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing where the participants will attend the first Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo to be held in China. As you’ve no doubt read here at Multilingual Search, the China … Read More
The Guardian newspaper reports today on a gala event in Shanghai where the rich of China voted on their favourite brands – alongside Ferrari and Armani their favourite search engine brand turns out to be Baidu. We’ve spoken a lot … Read More
Microsoft in a bid to keep up with Baidu, Yahoo! China and Google has opened an “adlab” in China. This research lab will focus on improving Microsoft’s pay per click advertising program, adCenter. Microsoft originally tested adCenter in Singapore. Source: … Read More
The first Google offline content ads appeared in the ‘Sun-Times’, as reported by the Chicago Times on 12 December. They have closed a deal which allows them to fill a column on the right with 15 positions. They even seem … Read More
A recent article at CMO magazine discusses the subtleties of marketing in China. The use of guanxi – your “network of influence” or your sphere of friends and acquaintences – is explained as being far more valuable than other Western … Read More
On December 27, Microsoft, Japan Telecom and Softbank BB announced the development of “Messenger Joint Communication Services” with their strategic partnership. This service ensures the security by combining the network infrastructure and the services such as VoIP, E-mail, internet access, … Read More
Jamie Gottlieb over at Adotas.com gives an interesting spin on the rampant growth of online marketing in China. She suggests the billion dollar investment by Yahoo!, the data center being developed by Google and IPOs like Baidu.com – all suggest … Read More
Since my fellow contributing editors are providing information about regional search engines, I decided to post an article I wrote prior to speaking at Search Engine Strategies “Global Search Landscape” session in Chicago. Our own Andy Atkins-Kruger, Web Certain and … Read More
Inspired by Kristjan’s post about Iceland, here is a short run down of the Search Engine Landscape in Denmark The search market in Denmark has historically, until the worldwide Google dominance, been driven by local directory Jubii (sold to Swedish … Read More
