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Search increased with 200% in Sweden

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 considers a China listing

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

Japanese consumers buying cycle

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

Online advertising in China grows 35%

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

Clampdown continues on Russian gambling

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

New team for Google in Denmark?

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

Gmail is available for everyone in Japan

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

Internet usage trend in holiday season in Japan

“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

Dutch Farmers have lost court case against Google

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 launch book search in Brazil

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

Australian Govt. start mobile porn laws

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

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