There has been a renewed interest in RuNet developments this month after the successful trip by Russian mega-portal Yandex to Silicon Valley. The Moscow-based company met with several potential strategic partners including “leading search firms”. An announcement is expected by … Read More
Shopping engine, Smarter.com has launched in China and Japan according to Gary Price over at Search Engine Watch. Obviously the growth of consumers in China has made this a profitable target. The web design of the Chinese site is closer … Read More
As the Chinese search engine battle heats up, Alibaba’s Jack Ma sets his sights on the gold medal with a relaunch of Yahoo! China. Goodbye portal, hello search! According to investment bank Piper Jaffray, daily searches by Internet users in … Read More
Autonomy launched its service of a joint venture with China Netcom Broadband (CNCBB), one of China’s largest Internet companies, in an effort to upstage Google and Yahoo. This joint venture allows the Chinese to search the Internet for news and … Read More
According to the search engine user survey done by Japan.Internet.com and Infoplant, Yahoo! Japan is still the most popular search engine in Japan followed by Google Japan. However, the gap between the two has become less than 10% compared to … Read More
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Italy hosted the 3rd forum on Interactive Advertising on November 3rd in Milano. IAB is the Italian charter of IAB Europe, a non-profit Association representing major players in online marketing, media planning, and advertising campaign management. … Read More
Kservik over at Threadwatch reports on the launch of no less than 3 new search engines in Norway. All the 3 new engines are all powered by the technology from Norwegian FAST Search & Transfer – the left over tech … Read More
The Belgian domain registry is promoting use of the .be domain by offering free registration until the 31st January. The domains are available on a first come first served basis and the registration systems are open now. Whilst there have … Read More
Online payments in China have been capped to 1,000RMB (US$123.53) per transaction in a fraud prevention measure. A variety of obstacles besides the legal, regulatory and political issues, stand in the way of assured e-commerce success. A lack of credit … Read More
Nepszabadság Online reported Google has launched its own Ltd in Hungary. The Google Számítástechnikai Szolgáltató Kft. (Google IT Services Ltd.) has 25 million HUF capital (approx. EUR 100.000), The management are David C. Drummond, George Reyes and Nikesh Arora. Although … Read More
Google has recently announced on their website that they are looking to hire a regional representative for Romania and Bulgaria. The giant in search is also looking to expand in South America and the Far East… … Read More
Webpositer, a Spanish search marketing company which has held prominent positions in Google’s results for some time – has had its site removed from the Google index. It is not the first time this has happened. Many search marketing sites … Read More
Google Startpage has launched yesterday, amonog the countries, The Netherlands!! You have to search for the hyperlink on Google to IG but now I have the possibility to get my own Google page with feeds, news, weather, stocks and of … Read More
Baidu.com saw nearly triple sales growth but watched its stock prices drop over concerns that they were rising too quickly. Baidu entered the stock market in August and saw it shares open at $27, trade as high as $153, but … Read More
German authors have mounted a protest against Google’s mass digitization of the world’s books for their http://print.google.com project. Members of the German main association of authors are in uproar claiming books are being digitized by Google without their authorization. Google … Read More
