Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and so called one of internet’s father (have you noticed that all invention has a father, but no mother?) spent this week visiting Brazil. I had the privilege to have lunch with him yesterday, … Read More
Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, met with reporters near Capitol Hill and acknowledged the company has compromised its values by relenting to Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is trying to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course. … Read More
Google, the world’s leading search engine service provider, authorized Shenzhen Metropolis Search to sell Google AdWords service in Shenzhen and the Shantou area of Guangdong Province in southern China. Shenzhen Metropolis Search was set up in 2005. CE Dongli Technology … Read More
None other than Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has been reported by Silicon India as saying that India will be the internet’s biggest market in 5 – 10 years. He also believes that Hindi, not Hispanic, could become one of the … Read More
PSI-Japan has begun accepting the applications for new domain “.mobi” for mobile sites. From May 22 to 29, the registration is limited to the member companies and organizations to GSMA, CTIA, MMA, CWTA, and MEF for their registered trademarks. From … Read More
The MSN Search Blog reports MSN Search Engine may use the description from a web page instead of ODP title and description. In a move to please the search community and more in general webmasters, MSN has introduced a new … Read More
Google is facing lots of problems here because of Orkut, its social network which is a huge success here. The Attorney General’s office, backed by a NGO, is making our friends from Mountain View sweat. Basically: Google must disclose information … Read More
Is Baidu expanding? This is the third time in row that the spider from Baidu is the first to arrive on sites that I am marketing. Baiduspider+(+http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.htm). Seeing that the search engine has been around for some time and I … Read More
We don’t often think of the Eurovision Song Contest having an effect on the world of international search but anyone who has watched the event will admit that the voting is notoriously political. It seemed no coincidence that the UK … Read More
Rambler, the No.2 search engine in Russia with a 20% share in the market, have released their financial statement for 2005. As expected they have seen significant growth, as with most industry sectors in Russia the online advertising market has … Read More
WordReference Verb Conjugator (Beta) While looking for an appropriate spanish translation for “information retrieval”, I came across WordReference Verb Conjugator tool. It’s a great tool. It might be an old news but is new to me. A search for “buscar” … Read More
KDDI announced the agreement with Google to incorporate Google’s search engine into its EZ Web Internet service for “au” mobile phones in July. This search service for both mobile phones and PCs, is the first of its kind in Japan. … Read More
Internet.com and Girls.Lab announced the results of mobile site bookmarking survey with 1409 girls between 10 and 18 in Japan. Here are some of the results: Q: Do you know the bookmark function on your mobile phone? – Yes, and … Read More
China Mobile, China’s largest cell phone carrier based on number of subscribers (260 million), and Google are in talks to create a mobile services search engine. China Mobile is seeking ways to offset declining revenues from voice services. No details … Read More
Blogging reaches top level government in Italy. Yesterday afternoon the new ministers were sworn into office – business as usual ? Not really if you consider that 6 ministers are active bloggers, in particular neo minister of communications Paolo Gentiloni.
