After a year full of controversies due to Orkut, Google opened its new office to celebrate the first anniversary. 2007 may be a new begining for Google, since there are some important changes in its team: Google Brasil #1 employee … Read More
Het Financieele Dagblad, the leading financial newspaper in the Netherlands, reports that a study by CoolBranding has given Google top spot for being not only the leading site in the Netherlands – but also the ‘strongest’ brand. Second was Ipod … Read More
US based online auction company EBay Inc. is exiting the China market. eBay said its China-based subsidiary, eBay EachNet, and TOM Online will enter into a joint venture. where eBay will take 49 percent stake and Tom Online Inc., an … Read More
Heavier users of the internet are switching to Firefox in greater numbers in the UK, says Nielsen//NetRatings. According to their latest report, by September 2006 almost 12% of UK users had adopted Firefox. Whilst for web marketing campaigns, 12% isn’t … Read More
Heise.de brings us the news (in German) that the German Government will be moving away from co-operation with the French over the search engine research project ‘Quaero’ even creating their own new project with a new name ‘Theseus’. The announcement … Read More
Chinese search site Baidu.com has signed a deal with Microsoft to sell advertising for MSN in China. Baidu’s paid search ads will appear on the Chinese versions of MSN, Live Search and other Micrsoft web properties. Baidu who recently announced … Read More
RSS feeds are very convenient way to obtain the information without visiting each web site, and more and more Japanese are using the services. Despite the initial concern of some of the sites may lose the number of access by … Read More
Yahoo Japan has announced its 2006 Search word ranking. (Jan 1 – Nov 5, 2006) The results shows new trend in the search words used at Yahoo Japan this year. In over all ranking, the ultimate bulletin board service site … Read More
Indian search engine Guruji announced it will now power India One. India One is a news portal, while Guruji is an Indian search engine started in this past October.
People’s Daily Online has reported that Baidu is launching a blog search engine. Just under 20 million people use blogs in the Chinese language.
Google Inc. announced Co-President Johnny Chou ( Zhou Shaoning) will resign at the end of the year in order to pursue personal interests. Mr. Chou, Google’s Greater China co-president in charge of sales and business development, first joined the company … Read More
Jabse is the name of the new player in search in Bulgaria. In a market, dominated entirely by Google (over 90% if you compare it to pure search engines) this new entry looks like a very brave move… … Read More
Leading Indian telco, Bharti Airtel has announced a strategic partnership with Google to offer mobile search in India. Google will incorporate mobile ads through its Adwords platform. The President of Bharti Airtel Ltd explains, “In India, mobile is fast outgrowing … Read More
Nordic eMarketing recently conducted a series of tests of Google’s regional European performance. By conducting simple searches in Spain, Germany, and Iceland, we found that the top ten results varied in each country by as much as 40%. … Read More
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, ICANN Chief Executive Paul Twomey has complained of the organisation coming under ‘signficant politicial pressure’ at a recent UN Athens conference to allow non-Latin standard characters to be used in domain names. This, he … Read More
