On August 31, Yahoo announced that they acquired 100% of Overture Japan’s stock. With this acquisition, Yahoo aims to become the largest share holder in the search engine marketing industry. (200 stocks, US$13,426,000.00) The announcement included no particular changes in … Read More
IAB Brazil’s Search Engine Marketing Committee launched last week a SEM Glossary. Main objective is educate the market about main terms and definitions. The document is in portuguese and is available for download at IAB website Members of IAB Brazil … Read More
Recent studies have shown that in Germany Google leads with a market share of 88.5% (I though Google had a foothold in the UK with around 79%). Yahoo has just over 3%, followed by the only local engine, ISP T-Online … Read More
North Korea is expected to get its own domain identity from ICANN, according to a France Press report via Inquirer.net. Internet access in the North of Korea is strictly limited – but the award of an internet identity for the … Read More
As companies get wiser about the Internet and understand that Google is not the beginning, the middle and the end in search in every country the start realising that “only” marketing in English might to cover it in France, Norway, … Read More
There will be a lot of activity around web and search in Sweden this autumn. Below I list all the conferences that are coming up and hope to see you on some of them! I will update list if I … Read More
PC Advisor brings us the news that Google believes planned acquisitions of Chinese companies will give it the top search engine spot over incumbent Baidu. Google plans to buy at least two and invest in several more Chinese companies over … Read More
A report by PhoCusWright Inc says that the European market on average will hit 25% of transactions carried out online during 2007 – this figure was achieved in the US in 2004. There are, however some key differences in European … Read More
It’s called e-Justice Centre and it represents a joint project of the Justice Department and Aveiro’s University, which already has a strong presence in Second Life. The Justice Department’s press release explains that the centre aims to be a place … Read More
There are not a lot of alternatives if you want to do paid search advertising in Portugal. Basically you have two big players – Google Adwords with the lion’s share and Anúncios Sapo a very distant second. Now AEIOU, a … Read More
Nielsen/NetRatings reports a 3% decrease in online presence in Italy during the month of June when compared to previous month. The report states the decrease in online presence as physiological and in line with previous seasonal fluctuations with 20,7 million … Read More
The Asia Digital Marketing Yearbook – www.asiadma.com gives Vietnam an internet population of 15.5 million users but reports that the country derives little economic benefit. “However, the internet is not used to any great effect: The websites of many ministries … Read More
Last week Google finally launched the “get directions” feature to Brazilian maps. That is a great feature for those using Google Maps mobile application. And, of course, this is the first major step towards local search in Brazil.
New data from TNS – What are the most popular web sites in Israel? … Read More
That will put Portugal in the top five best educational systems in the EU. Or at least that is the aim of Portugal’s Prime Minister José Socrates, for the next 3 years. Since taking charge of the Portuguese government, Socrates … Read More
