Yandex opened a new office in St. Petersburg today, expanding out of their Moscow base. Andrey Ivanov, who previously led the Russian branch of the Borland company, will be head of the operation. In the first months the tasks of … Read More
Internet media is growing rapidy in Sweden with an increase of 40% in spending from last year. In total the mediaspending increased with 7% for all offline and online medias. The total media spending in Sweden is now 7,8 billion … Read More
Baidu, China’s leading search engine with more than 50% of the China search engine market share, has had informal talks with China’s stock regulator as they are considering a domestic listing. Baidu, a big hit in their Nasdaq debut last … Read More
Major Search Engines are believed to introduce a series of link descriptor tags to complement (or replace) the well know rel=”nofollow” tag introduced to curb misuse of linking efforts. According to a recent post , nofollow has been found to … Read More
I just read the survey taken by OPT and Cross Marketing with 300 male and female Blog and SNS users in Japan. It has interesting results about what have the impact on Japanese consumers in purchasing products and services. Q. … Read More
China’s online advertising market reached RMB 3.23 billion in 2005, ($40 millionUSD) and is expected to reach RMB 4.39 billion ($55 million USD) in 2006 according to Analysys International. Search engine advertising is fueling this growth. Baidu, Sina, Sohu, and … Read More
Times have got harder for the online gambling industry in Russia as Rambler, the No.2 search engine has decided to stop accepting PPC advertising for the gambling/poker sector. Earlier this year I reported on the new law introduced to restrict … Read More
Google Brazil presented this week its Click to Call system to a selected group of marketers. Launch is scheduled for early September.
Search friends, This will be my first blog at Multilingual Search and I am really happy to have join this brilliant blog team. Funny enough my first blog will give you news about Denmark, although I am originally Swedish.. but … Read More
Google’s Gmail account is now available for general public without an invitation in Japan. Currently, Google is the default search engine on mobile “au” through the tie-up with KDDI. Gmail may become “au”‘s mobile mailer soon??? Gmail is also available … Read More
“Obon” (Aug 10-16) is one of the biggest holiday season in Japan. More and more people use Internet to obtain leisure related information such as travel booking, attraction, and weather. On the other hand, people are busy with their vacation … Read More
Reuters reports that the Dutch farmer dating site (supported by the FNV Union) has lost their court case in Amsterdam. The judge ruled that the keywords (in broadmatching) “farm” and “date” were too general. The combination (Farm-date, Farmdate etc.) however … Read More
Google Book Search was launched this week in Brazil. Its the first version targeting South America. The publishers already involved are: Senac, Callis, Boitempo, Planeta, Grupo Oceano, UIA, Editorial Norma, Random House Mondadori, Longseller, Iteso e Editora Pedagógica e Universitária. … Read More
The newspapers in Australia are covering a developing story about laws being started to regulate adult content for mobile phones. Though not strictly search, this restriction can have consequences to other industries on the web. Censorship needs to be regulated … Read More
Read/Write Web has issued a new report on web 2.0 applications in Spain … Read More
