Dir.bg, one of the first and largest web portals in Bulgaria has just announced on its website the launch of a new standalone service – Diri.bg. “Diri” in Bulgarian is an old-style word for “Tarsi”(v), meaning – “Search”. This new … Read More
As was announced by several SEM blogs and media, Google launched internationally the navigational links in their homepage. This was a feature previously only available in Google.com (US). The order of the links in the Portuguese version of Google (Google.pt) … Read More
Baidu does a new take on the Google logos. It’s the person(s) of the month which started in November with a Mr. Xu Sandou, a famous soap opera star in China. This month features Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, two … Read More
Yahoo launched a few weeks ago the Yahoo Go application for mobile in Brazil. I have being using the 1.0 version in English for quite some time, but the new version keeps the same features, but now it’s avaiable in … Read More
Acording to a recent report by iResearch, an internet marketing research company in China, the number of online shoppers is predicted to reach 100 million in 2010. The popularity of C2C sites like www.taobao.com and ebay.com.cn has given China netizens … Read More
Export-Japan’s latest survey results show that more than 70% of Japanese top manufactures have English web site in addition to Japanese site. 1,684 top manufactures in Japan responded to the survey. Honda offers the most language sites (36 languages) followed … Read More
Yahoo recently added oneSearch capability, a search service designed for mobile users, to nine mobile operators in Asia. Those mobile operators include, DiGi Telecommunications (Malaysia), Starhub (Singapore), Aircel Limited (India), BPL Mobile (India), Bharat Sanchar Nigam (India), PT Hutchison CP … Read More
In an Hertzliya convention held by the Anti-Defamation League, Meir Brand, Google Israel CEO says: “Google cannot decide which sites will be published on the world wide web, We obey to the law and as long as there isn’t a … Read More
Russian search leader Yandex, has released their Autumn report on the current state of the blogosphere in Russia. As you might expect, the report is in Russian so I’ll give you some of the highlights here. – There are now … Read More
Baidu, the leading Chinese search engine is contemplating a secondary share listing in Hong Kong. Baidu is currently listed on the Nasdaq (BIDU) and is one of Google’s strongest rivals in China. The idea may have been brought about by … Read More
Barry from SEroundtable postes in his personal blog about a possible SEO event in Israel, (and maybe I for once will need no hotel nor flights to arrange…) From Barry’s post: I can probably get a sponsor with the help … Read More
The headline is taken from a slide where Andy Atkins Kruger of WebCertain demonstrates the importance of having local people translating. I moderated a session at SMX Stockholm last week called “Global Search Marketing Tactics” where I had Andy, Sara … Read More
The first European event in the SMX series got off to a great start with good attendance, excellent speaker content and a very good atmosphere. Stockholm, in the SES series, was always a more intimate occasion with a great deal … Read More
Vanessa Fox over at SearchEngineLand describes a new feature in Google Webmaster Central which allows you to set the geographic preference of your website. One of the main issues for people new to multilingual marketing is how to set up … Read More
Overture Japan and DeNA have agreed to introduce Overture’s paid ads to one of the largest Mobile gaming and SNS services in Japan, Mobaga Town (www.mbga.jp). The sponsored search mobile’s ads appear on “moba search”, and the content match mobile’s … Read More
