In response to demand from UK and European delegates, the agenda for the upcoming SMX London has been adjusted to focus even more heavily on advanced search engine optimsiation and marketing topics providing a solid training opportunity for European-based search marketers. Chris Sherman, the host for the conference, has always focused on good content […]

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Abondance reports that Miva has announced the closure of its French operation. The service will cease on the 28th April and all publishers are to be paid their due fees. Advertisers will also be reimbursed any unspent fees.

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Motoko Hunt has won the Inaugural President’s Award from the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO). Motoko has been a consistent and hardworking contributor to Multilingual-Search with great insights on the Japanese search market. We cannot think of anyone more deserving! Congratulations! Keep up the good work! As reported by […]

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China Knowledge reports that Baidu Chief Executive, Robin Li, revealed at the Boao Forum for Asia that Baidu is launching a new advertising programme AND a 3G solution for this year - but has no plans to expand outside of China and Japan, for the moment.

The new advertising programme is entitled “Phoenix Nest” or “Fengchao” […]

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Google’s has reported turnover for the first quarter of 2009 at 3% down on the previous quarter globally - but international revenues actually grew by 0.49% from $2,850 billion to $2,864 billion disguising a significant 7.23% fall in US turnover. UK turnover was $733 million compared with $684 million in the previous quarter - […]

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Social Networking site Plaxo is expanding its global network of sites by using the technique member sourcing’ to produce its localisations. The nature of social networking applications and features renders traditional translation ineffective as many of the terms do not have equivalents in other languages. Plaxo’s approach involves a portal which allows users to suggest […]

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Three years ago I attended the Jeeves retirement party in New York when IAC showed the famous ‘Jeeves’ butler frozen in ice - the implication was always that Jeeves would one day be back. And back he certainly is in the UK as reported by non-less than the BBC - and he’s offering prizes […]

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The newly named AT Internet Institute, formerly XiTiMonitor, has published its survey of French search engine activity for March putting Google just under 90% - this is despite a change in their methodology which now measures search engine traffic in France emanating only from France and not from other countries. Live Search is in 2nd […]

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According to Comscore Facebook took first place in Spain for the first time in February. Comscore’s statistics also put Facebook in 6th place of most popular web properties worldwide with 275 million visitors in February. This works out at a 314% growth in Comscore’s Europe.

With the addition of Spain, Facebook now has first […]

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ORF.at reports that Ebay has acquired 67% of South Korean competitor Gmarket for $1.2 billion and becomes the market leader in South Korea. Ebay has already bought 67% of shares listed on the New York NASDAQ.

Large beneficiaries of the move are both Yahoo and Interpark which were major shareholders in Gmarket owning a combined […]

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Google’s earnings data, released a few weeks ago, reveal some interesting facts about search marketing beyond the normal headline figures - including that international revenues have fallen relative to their total turnover - see chart below. (Note that this chart was produced by analysts at WebCertain.com and is provided as a guide only.) […]

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Comscore has released figures showing that Google received a billion searches in June placing it number one with an 81% share. The largest local search engine was Rediff.com with a 1.5% share. India is a massive potential and growing market with 23 official languages but where English is the only lingua franca. […]

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A fascinating acquisition has taken place in Russia where Google, which has not traditionally performed well in the Russian search engine market, has paid one of its competitors $50 million for their share of the Begun contextual advertising system. The total acquisition value of Begun was $140 million - but a signficant slice of […]

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Yesterday, Google announced its second quarter figures showing that international revenues represented all revenue growth for the last 9 months with the US virtually flatlining. Growth in revenue compared to last year was 39% and 3% compared with the first quarter of the year giving a total quarter turnover of $5.3 billion. Clicks […]

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Abondance brings us further news of the Google book publishing initiative which sees Lyon, France’s second most important city (sorry Marseilles), jumping the gun on Paris and cooperating with Google. The digitisation will involve those books which are out of copyright.
The library houses an important collection of books in the French language and some […]

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India is unusual in having 23 official languages from English and Hindi to Kannada and Telugu - now the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has released ‘cross language search plugins’ which are intended to make search more readily available to the wider spectrum of Indian languages, reports India Times.
This, together with the wide […]

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According to Vietnamnet, Yahoo is pushing the boat out in terms of new product launches in Vietnam - a market of around 20 million internet users with a largely young profile. Only in April this year, Yahoo appointed Vu Minh Tri as the General Director of Yahoo Vietnam.
Vietnam is a particularly interesting market for […]

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Nokia of Finland, which just happens to be the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has partnered with leading Norwegian telecoms company - Telenor - to provide access to various internet services through Nokia’s own internet service Ovi, reports Reuters. The Telenor and Ovi services will be offered to customers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and […]

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The largest company in the WebCertain ‘internet companies extract’ of the FT Global 500 is Hong Kong’s China Mobile with a staggering market value of $298 billion, beating Google into a cocked hat in 12th place at a ‘tiny’ $104 billion and after such companies as Microsoft, AT&T, IBM, Vodafone, Cisco, Intel and Apple. […]

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