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
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Baidu plans to enter the Japanese market by 2007. “We carefully studied the Japanese market,” said Mr. Li, who is also Baidu’s chairman. “It’s primarily dominated by two players we are very familiar with. … 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
Walla.co.il, Israel’s biggest internet portal and search engine until 2005 sent a notice to all its advertisers, announcing a shift from PPI (pay-per-inclusion at a fixed price) to pay-per-click. The change will be implemented starting 1 January 2007. Walla, a … Read More
Seems the South Koreans do not like people making money from selling online gaming currencies to other gamers. An IT Week article details this and says that as much as $900 million is being spent on this in South Korea. … Read More
An article on the ABC Australia website details Google’s view of the Australian market. Basically they see a lot of growth potential as the media spend is below 10% of total ad spend. Should be a major push to develop … Read More
The new edition of E-Bulgaria report (published annually by Vitosha Research) contains some interesting insights about Internet penetration in Bulgaria and how Bulgarians use the technology. Even though the research predicts over 33% Internet penetration in January 2007, things are … Read More
The Google monster came under concerted attack from Francois Bourdoncle, CEO and founder of France-based search engine Exalead in the opening keynote of Search Engine Strategies Paris. The press in particular should be worried about becoming sub-contractors of Google, he … Read More
A recent
Google Brazil got a court order overuling the previous decision which jeopardized its operations in Brazil. It’s still a provisory decision, but it’s good news for Mountain View at last. Google recently implemented several upgrades in Orkut, in order to … Read More
I earlier posted that China blocked and unblocked Wikipedia and that it was now available in most of China. That information was wrong and none other than the founder of Wikipedia, Jimbo Wales, set me straight. I won’t try to … Read More
Chen Hui, founder of China’s leading pornographic website, “Pornographic Summer” was sentenced to life and fined 100,000 yuan (about $12,500). Mr. Chen is only 28 years old. Eight other people involved with the site were sentenced to between 13 months … Read More
Wikipedia, a Web-based free content encyclopedia, has recently been blocked again in China according to the Information World Review. Despite the fact that Wikipedia is now accessible throughout most of China, there are reports that is still completely blocked in … Read More
Google News has launched a Beta version in Sweden. http://news.google.se/ The newspapers are abit scared and headlines are out about the incident in Belgium when Google got sued for linking to newspapers in the region. The Newspapers in Belgium won … Read More
Baidu.com (BIDU), the leading Chinese language search engine, hit a new 52-week high of $108.28. Baidu’s was established in 2000 by co- founders, Robin Li and Eric Xu and the initial public offering was August 5, 2005 opening at $66 … Read More
