The Financial Times is reporting today that Dealreporter.com (a subscription service) has details of a 400 page document spelling out accusations from complainants to the EU related to abuse of the search engine’s commercial dominance in Europe. The total list … Read More
Strategically a very significant step was announced in eastern Europe today — Yandex’s video search system is to power Seznam as part of a wider partnership agreement! The video search service is at videa.seznam.cz and has been re-developed specifically for … Read More
For decades it was the media companies that largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy and where. With the mass popularity of the Internet consumers now have the ability to generate, curate and distribute content … Read More
International SEO, Geo-targeting, Global Search Trends, International PPC and Multilingual Video Optimisation are just some of the sessions on offer at the International Search Summit London on November 24th. Targeted at international marketers, the Summit focuses on the topics, issues … Read More
Today’s Infographics Mondays series looks at Google Adwords costs. Google set another record with its Q3 2011 revenue reaching USD9.72 billion (USD9billion in Q2 2011) representing a 33% increase vs Q3 2010. Around 70% of Google’s revenue is generated by … Read More
Twitter is now available in an additional 5 languages, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Tagalog and Malay, meaning that the microblog is now available in a total of 17 languages. It also plans to increase add six more languages: Swedish, … Read More
Baidu, China’s top online search engine, teamed up with Dell to integrate the Yi OS, an Android alternative, into Dell’s smart phones and tablets manufactured in China. Baidu’s Yi OS has some tough competion in China with Nokia and Alibaba. … Read More
Internet users prefer sharing content than creating it, is a key message to come out of the latest GlobalWebIndex report, which surveys web users in 27 markets around the world. When asked “Which online activities have you done in the … Read More
Google Adwords has seen many developments lately: from the adwords video to adwords express. If you check your Google mail account you see adwords ads in gmail on top of the menu bar and on the right hand side of … Read More
The beginning of August saw Google announcing that Google+ now has more than 25 million users (though the activity declines). It is too soon to tell whether Google+ will be a serious contender, but since it is a Google product, it has a good chance of succeeding.
In light of Google’s success, it is interesting to see how the other players are doing. And in particular, how is Facebook doing in The Netherlands? … Read More
Today sees the start of the Yahoo-Microsoft Search Alliance roll-out into Europe, with Yahoo! organic search results in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and Ireland being powered by Bing. This change has already been implemented in the US & … Read More
Google has officially launched AdWords Express, a new, easy Pay Per Click service for local businesses. Initially launched as Google Boost in October 2010, AdWords Express is an faster and easier way to start advertising online via AdWords: five minutes … Read More
And finally there it was: Google Plus (or +). Almost every blog, national and international, talked about it and it even made the news. And everyone had an opinion, despite of the fact that they had access or not. We … Read More
Google has launched a new crossover search portal called “What do you love?” under the http://www.wdyl.com domain name. It aggregates in a non Google conventional way your search query results: books news Google groups based discussions product search and shopping classic … Read More
For some years we have talked about BRIC countries as being amongst the most interesting for international search marketers to target. It was always inevitable that at some point we would need to come up with a new term and … Read More
