Blekko is an interesting new search engine currently in Beta. As there will be plenty of people doing general reviews, I thought I would concentrate on looking at what Blekko can offer in terms of links. Link builders in particular … Read More
For any organisation targeting a Russian audience, knowing and understanding Yandex is key to success in the country. The homegrown search engine is the clear market leader in Russia, and is showing little sign of relinquishing any of this share … Read More
In a research done by Nordic eMarketing in cooperation with the eNewsPR network, journalists are found to use less than 2.5 keywords most of the time. In the same research Nordic eMarketing found that French journalists are lazier than the … Read More
Facebook is now the most popular social network in India, having overtaken Orkut for the first time ever. The latest comScore figures show that Facebook has grown by 179% in the past year, and boasted 20.9 million visitors in July. … Read More
We all know Twitter is a global tool and an essential part of any international social media strategy – but how should we use it for maximum effect? John Yunker is the co-founder of Byte Level Research, a company dedicated … Read More
From 2011, Webcertain will be partnering with SMX (Search Marketing Expo) to run the International Search Summit at SMX events across the US and Europe. The International Search Summit will continue to be programmed and hosted by Webcertain, however will … Read More
China Mobile, the world’s biggest cellphone carrier and Xinhua, China’s official state run news agency, signed an agreement to establish a new Internet search engine and international media company, “Search Engine New Media International Communications Co.” It was not immediately … Read More
Indonesia, Brazil and Venezuela are nations with the most tweeters, according to a comScore report which shows that global Twitter usage has increased 109% in the past year. While Indonesia recorded the most monthly visitors to the site, Latin America … Read More
In a Wall Street Journal interview, Baidu CEO Robin Li stated that international expansion will be a key revenue driver for the Chinese search engine in the coming years. Baidu launched a Japanese version of its site in 2008 and … Read More
Yahoo and Google have come to the agreement on the partnership in Japanese market. It was officially announced on each blog on July 27th. While the effective date is yet to be decided, according to the announcements, we can expect … Read More
The International Search Summit will be heading to Seattle, Washington in October, for the first Summit to take place outside of Europe. The Seattle Summit will follow the same format as its European counterparts and provide delegates with a day … Read More
A recent study by Semiocast has shown that more tweets now originate from Asia than any other region. 37% of Tweets are made in the region, an increase of 5.5% from March this year, while North America has seen a … Read More
This is a comment which isn’t particularly popular among localisation professionals yet if you are localising a website as part of your marketing strategy, omitting SEO from the process is condemning your marketing plan to failure. Sure, your website would … Read More
The FT reports today that Alibaba, the Chinese business-to-business search giant, has made its first move to acquire a serious foothold in the US following years of sabre rattling, by buying Vendio.com – an e-commerce platform which allows you to … Read More
In the Netherlands the biggest social network is not Facebook, but Hyves. And its our luck that the people at Hyves like numbers. On a regular basis they are publishing new numbers, usually showing us their growth. They always try … Read More
