San Mateo: 

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 [...]

Strasbourg: 

Since the 24th November last year, European country governments are required to legislate for better electronic privacy — which includes bringing in much more transparency over the use of the “Cookie”.

The way European Union law develops is designed to work [...]

Moscow: 

Russian market-leading search engine Yandex, has opened up access to a Latin-alphabet index it has been compiling for the last two years with most content in the English language. A statement from Yandex explained that the principle objective is [...]

Beijing: 

The Financial Times reports today that David Wei, Chief Executive of Alibaba.com, has revealed that George Soros has become one of the organisation’s largest shareholders. Mr. Wei also told the FT that Alibaba intends to buy out Yahoo’s [...]

London: 

Greg Jarboe’s status as a great public speaker was confirmed yesterday when the International Search Summit audience voted Greg as its very first ‘Medallion Speaker Award’. WebCertain, which hosts the Summit, introduced the Medallion Award to give audiences [...]

London: 

As the final printer deliveries for Thursday’s International Search Summit trundle through the reception below where I’m sitting, flights are boarded in the US and Europe and final polishing of presentations and content is shaping up, we’re looking forward to [...]

Marina del Rey: 

Since November last year it has been possible to use characters that were not formerly part of the Latin character set used for creating web addresses and URLs. For example, the German umlaut – a character with two dots [...]

Mountain View: 

The Official Google Blog has been restating the policy of Google at handling government interference in its products noting that Google products from search and Blogger to YouTube and Google Docs have been blocked in 25 of the 100 [...]

London: 

It’s already been a few years since Multilingual-Search.com emerged from a Blogger account to become the serious news source it has become – thanks in large part to the regular contributions from people such as Sante Achille, Motoko Hunt, Kristjan [...]

Mountain View: 

Google’s announcement that it is re-directing Chinese users to uncensored Chinese-language results at Google Hong Kong is an historic turning point when one ‘empire’ sees its apparently unassailable position as no longer certain. In China it is hugely important [...]

Hyderabad: 

Facebook has announced the opening of an office in Hyderabad in southern India to support the roll out of Facebook to the large India-based population. Already Facebook has 8 million users in India. The company is now looking [...]

New York: 

Bryan Eisenberg certainly thinks that ‘Conversion Optimisation’ is the best thing since sliced bread. In fact he’s just left his company to focus on being a marketing speaker covering this ‘critical’ aspect of marketing and recently demonstrated his thinking [...]

London: 

Whenever the topic of ‘international SEO’ is discussed – one of the very first subjects people want to learn and talk about is which domains to use and how to structure a website at the very top level. In [...]

London: 

It is interesting to note that, according to Google, there are monthly 12,100 searches for the phrase “Website Translation” and only 1,000 for “International SEO”. Of course, there are other phrases of importance such as “multilingual SEO” but that’s [...]

Paris: 

Everyone in the online world depends on having good data in some way or other. Until ComScore rolled out qSearch in 150 countries, there was very little comparable data available to compare activities in different countries. Frequently, people [...]

Mountain View: 

Chinese war guru, Sun Tzu, who wrote the “Art of War” would have been shaking his head in dismay at the launch of Google Buzz earlier this week. Whilst Wall Street was rubbing its hands in glee at the [...]

: 

Next week is the Search Engine Strategies London conference and expo at the Business Design Centre in Islington, which I’ll be participating in for roughly the fifth or sixth time – in fact I can’t quite remember which one was [...]

: 

Hurrah, the UK economy is out of recession. Boo, the UK economy is recovering so weakly from the global recession that it may be some time before things truly start to get better. Conclusion? Many experts say [...]

: 

When Google said it was adding “real time” search to its platform, most saw this as a logical addition which made sense. Few recognised the pandora’s box which was about to open enabling ‘reputation management’ to move centrestage giving [...]

: 

Because of what I do – specialising in international and multilingual search that is – for years people have been explaining to me the importance of the ’semantic web’ and that I should be getting involved. Many thought it [...]