Mountain View: 

Google received a warm reception to the announcement of its second quarter figures yesterday having been roundly criticised for losing control of its costs last quarter. The topline was a 32% revenue sales growth in the second quarter, compared [...]

Paris: 

As part of Comscore’s release of May data, the company provided details of the ten fastest growing verticals in France for the month of May compared with April. As the chart below shows, this showed a dramatic spike [...]

London: 

Comscore has released its May data showing the popularity of various European websites for the month of May 2011 in Europe which provides some interesting findings, including the fact that Facebook now beats Google sites in Europe for number [...]

Beijing: 

Baidu has announced a deal with Microsoft’s Bing to power its English language results within China. Baidu’s Kaiser Kuo explained, “We have an increasing number of people entering English-language queries on Baidu, and that’s never been our strong suit. [...]

: 

Nielsen reports that 41% of Malaysians accessed the Internet in 2010, a 15% increase over the previous year. People in the younder ranges of 20-24 were the highest users with 57% of them using the internet for just [...]

Brussels: 

You may never have heard of Neelie Kroes but now is the time to change that — she has the most profound influence over the future development of the global web of any human on the planet. How come? [...]

Moscow: 

Yandex’s launch of Yandex.Maps in July of 2010 following its acquisition of GIS Technologies is now to be fully exploited through the addition of Geo-targeted ads which will appear in the maps, in Yandex’s business directory and more significantly [...]

Moscow: 

Yandex has just released its financial figures for 2010 and the number one Russian search engine managed to achieve a whopping 43% growth in revenue taking them to $410 million — 88% of this increased revenue related to pure search [...]

Hangzhou: 

Alibaba has leapt ahead of Google in terms of the share of online advertising revenue it earns in China — it’s home market. According to Analysys International, Alibaba’s Taoboa keyword advertising and the further development of its interactive advertising [...]

Moscow: 

Leading Russian search engine Yandex, has introduced a new method of predicting user intent in order to improve the quality of its results and thereby improve relevancy. The Yandex team advise that the system, known as “Spectrum” is based [...]

Global Village: 

Combining the capabilities of Google Translate with Google Search has long been a feature of international search experiences — but somewhat in the background. Not anymore. Google this week rolled out a feature across the non-English speaking world, [...]