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
October 26: One of Japan’s major internet service providers Livedoor (corp.livedoor.com) will provide the online marketing services to Chinese market together with Strategic Desision Initiative Ltd. (www.strategicdi.com) through Livedoor’s Chinese portal site “MyRice” (www.myrice.com). The services include; internet advertising, e-mail … Read More
Search Engine Strategies will hold its first conference in China next March 17 & 18th in Nanjing. The city of Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu Province and is located about 5 hours west of Shanghai. The search scene in … Read More
Nielsen Media Research (NMR) Italia is now including online marketing expenditure in their monthly monitoring of the Italian Advertising Market. A joint workgroup between the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Italy and AssoInternet has developed guidelines to monitor advertising expenditure online, … Read More
French domain names are notoriously difficult to obtain. The ‘liberalization’ of the procedure in 2004 had little effect on easing the process. Sure, non-French citizens could now register an .fr domain name but only if they provided a French Identity … Read More
Oct. 19 – The ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Japan (www.soumu.go.jp) has announced the number of Blog and SNS registrations as of September 30, 2005. According to the announcements, there are 4.73mil registered Blog users and 3.99mil registered SNS … Read More
The ex-government owned Iceland Telecom has been sold. This major player on the Iceland Telecom market was privatized recently and sold to highest bidding Investors. The future prospects of Iceland Telecom’s operations are good and the company has a strong … Read More
Yandex, the leading Russian search engine, have just announced the launch of a contextual advertisement program for webmasters. For the first time the Yandex Direct (PPC) adverts will be placed on web sites as well as displayed next to the … Read More
The Icelandic search engine FINNA.is has gone through some changes, being one the of two major players in local search here in Iceland the decided to change from Overture WWW results to Google. After having built their own crawler for … Read More
ADSL 2, the new generation of DSL connections, will soon be available in a number of locations throughout Italy within the next few months. In a recent interview Andrea Podda, Technical Director of Tiscali, announced that new DSL profiles will … Read More
Oct. 12: Nifty’s (www.nifty.com) pod casting site “Podcasting Juice” has launched the English version of Mainichi weekly podcast. (mainichi-podcasting.cocolog-nifty.com) The service is provided for free. Podcasting Juice, which opened in July, now has 620,000 users.
