On January 11th, Matt Cutts warned us about Google’s upcoming efforts to clean up it’s indices of Spam on an international level. Can’t say there was no warning. On February 4th, it happened and it happened BIG. According to Matt … Read More
If you haven’t heard of it yet, it won’t be long. And if you’re reading now, you’re about to be impressed. FON is Martin Varsavsky’s latest creation. It’s one of those ideas that makes you think, “Why didn’t I come … Read More
5 top home appliance manufactures* has organized “DTV Portal Inquiry Working Group”. “It is important to provide the services that are easy to understand and easy to use, as digital TV and Internet become part of people’s lives in Japan. … Read More
On February 1st, Ask Jeeves Japan launched beta version of the local area information search services “Jimo Navi” from Ask.jp . Ask.jp has also launched mobile version of the local area information search service “Ask M Town” on January 24th, … Read More
Keynote’s recent study of search engine users in China revealed that Google was their favorite. Jeff Kraatz, Vice President and Managing Director for Asia Pacific, joined show hosts Cindy Turrietta and Todd Sarouhan as well as Ian McCanerin and myself … Read More
Germany is the largest e-commerce market in western Europe – and the third economy in the world after only the US and Japan and ahead of China, reminds eMarketer author James Belcher in Germany Online – their latest report. Key … Read More
Search Engine Mediabureau Checkit presents with RM Interactive the results of the National Search Engine Monitor. A research under 1.297 Dutch people. Here the date of who knows the Search Engine by name, who uses a particulier Search Engine and … Read More
Ask Jeeves has finally launched in Germany with a German version.. Since it’s acquisition by IAC and the commitment of the company to expand multilingually and worldwide – this has been an expected and welcome move. Multilingual Search announced the … Read More
Google will launch the new version of its search engine using the China “.cn” suffix. A Chinese-language version of Google’s search engine was available at the .com address but because of the Chinese government’s filtering it was often inaccesible or … Read More
Yahoo announced yesterday that it is expanding its research facilities in both Europe and Latin America. Web retrieval expert, Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates – a new hire – will work in the Barcelona office – the first addition in Europe.
Takafumi Horie, founder of Liverdoor – a major Japanese portal – has been jailed along with other members of the executive board following allegations of breaches in the country’s Securities Exchange Law. The beleaguered company has dropped more than 60% … Read More
Shakil Khan, well known commentator and "Man on The Ground" in China, reports on the hype surrounding online opportunities in the country. What I see around me is a lot of "Smoke and Mirrors" activity taking place, and I think … Read More
At the 6th Fiber Optics EXPO in Tokyo, Japan, Mr. Tamada of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications gave a speech about “Next generation broadband plan 2010”. He said, “The next generation broadband plan 2010 aims to grow Japan as … Read More
MSN Japan began to offer MSN search tool bar for enterprises with the Windows desk top search tool for free. This desk top search searches more than 200 types of files in e-mails, documents, image files, music files, video files, … Read More
