China Tech Stories noted on 27 September 2006 that the Google’s logo on google.cn was the original and not the newly created one for Guge, Google China’s name. However the old Guge logo came back so many thought it was … Read More
In a conversation with Multilingual Search, Guy Phillipson, Chief Executive of the IABUK commented that paid search should exceed £1 billion by the end of 2006 in the UK. Guy says, “Search is the perfect form of persuasion marketing and … Read More
The IABUK, reported in the Guardian says that paid for search advertising or pay per click, has risen by 57.7% this year over last. The finding comes in their annual study of online market share carried out with Pricewaterhouse Coopers … Read More
Media research firm Zenithoptimedia reports that 8 countries will dedicate more than 10% of their budgets to online marketing by 2008. Two countries will already cross that barrier this year – the UK adn Sweden – interestingly not the US. … Read More
The popularity of blogs in China is evident by the growth of 30 times the number in the last four years. 17.5 million people fancy themselves blog writers while 55 million are regular readers. This comes from the latest report … Read More
Many CMs aired in Japan now mention a keyword phrase, some even show a phrase being typed in the search window on commercial. According to Internet.com and goo Research, 52% of the Internet users who responded to the survey have … Read More
Yahoo Japan made a licensing agreement with Mediabolic for its web media product software, with which Yahoo Japan is going to develop “Yahoo! digital home engine”. Once it’s developed, people can access Yahoo Japan’s services such as search engine, auction, … Read More
Marketing Sherpa has released an annual research study into the state of search engine optimisation (SEO). The study reveals a significant customer satisfaction amongst those employing organic placement with search engine traffic increments ranging from 73% to 110% for those … Read More
Alibaba.com’s Yahoo China filed a lawsuit against Qihoo.com for unfair-competition. The lawsuit was filed in Beijing’s No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court. Beijing Sanjiwuxian Internet Technology, which operates the Qihoo.com Web portal, distributes software , “360safe”, that urges users to unistall … Read More
Spanish is the third top spoken language in the World, yet a recent Accenture study found that the fact is no indication of it´s performance online. Lets look at the numbers Internet growth in Latin America and Spain just last … Read More
More fun domain disputes. If you’ve been following Multilingual Search for some time you may have read a story last year, about internationalizing the Chilean .cl domains. To summarize, it means that the .cl domains can use “ñ”, “ü” and … Read More
Google’s vertical markets director, Jeff Levick, highlighted the importance of translation, machine translation in other words, during the “Future of Search” panel debate at London’s AdTech, which I was fortunate enough to moderate. Jeff pointed to the fact that there … Read More
The conference was full of motivated people and interestingly enough more and more people have tried search. In fact in a survey conducted during the conference the attendants were asked what type of webmarketing activities they are currently working with. … Read More
The race is on to see which engine will deliver a contextual advertising program for ordinary webmasters in Russia to rival Google. Well it was only this Tuesday when I wrote that, and it seems that race has started in … Read More
Rambler, the No.2 search engine in Russia with a 20% share in the market, have released their financial statement for the 1st half of 2006 [LSE: RMG] Report highlights Total revenue up nearly 100% period on period to US$ 16 … Read More
