Google has added ten new languages to its translation service bringing the total to 23, Google also added a “detect language” option for those that need. The languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish. … Read More
Yahoo Japan’s SiteExplorer tool is now available for webmasters. Below are some of the functions of the tool: – Check the web pages indexed in YST by specifying URL or domain. – Check when the pages are crawled and which … Read More
comScore’s top Japanese property ranking for March 2008 is out. While there’s no changes in ranking for the past several months, I’d like to point out that the gap between the #1 site (Yahoo) and #2 site (Google) is getting … Read More
As everyone knows Microsoft had given up Yahoo (for now, I think). In Brazil that means nothing, because here Yahoo and Microsoft are still operating together, as during the early days of Overture. Therefore, the “Search duopoly” mentioned by Danny … Read More
Banca d’Italia has published recent statistics on home and corporate online banking usage in Italy. The report shows … … Read More
According to the research by Xlisting (excite is their major share holder), 55.6% of pages ranking within top 10 in Yahoo search results are owned by the sites listed in Xlinsting’s categories. They also says that 43% of Google top … Read More
Google has announced it’s first quarter financial results in 2008 showing a 42% increase in turnover (revenues) from the same quarter in 2007. In the same timescale, click volumes have increased by a mere 20% showing the value per click … Read More
According to goo Research’s report, 85% of teenagers and preteens participated in the survey said that they know (and use) video sharing sites. It shows that YouTube (57%) is the most popular video sharing site followed by NicoNicoDouga (13%). “Listening … Read More
Ok, this is not really a search news, but still a fun news about Google. Google opened “Google Cafe” in Roppongi, Tokyo this weekend. Their “Google Sodas” come in several Google logo colours. They also serve light meals and deserts. … Read More
As we reported back in February 2007, ICANN is still attempting to delete the obsolete SU (Soviet Union) extension but having little success. While they have managed to decommission the .YU (Yogoslavia) extension successfully they are finding rebellion among Russian … Read More
You wont read about it in an official Google post in any of the Google blogs I am aware of, but it’s a fact from like 2 months now – Google does transliteration from Latin letters to Bulgarian letters when … Read More
The first ever ‘Digital Families’ Report, the latest in the EIAA Mediascope Europe series, reveals interesting insights into the digital lifestyles of Europe’s online families
Google has changed its trademark policy for the UK and Ireland bringing it into line with its policy for the US and Canada. What this means in practice is that for trademark complaints relating to its Adwords programme, from now … Read More
The European Commission announced the activation of 2.8 million .eu Top Level Domains in 2 years of EURID operations. The most active countries have been … … Read More
If you are considering targeting the Russian audience, one of the first hurdles to overcome is how to deal with the local online payment methods. Credit cards have started to be distributed but they are expensive, with high interest rates, … Read More
