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People’s Daily Online has reported that Baidu is launching a blog search engine.
Just under 20 million people use blogs in the Chinese language.

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Seems the Koreans do not like people making money from selling online gaming currencies to other gamers.

An IT Week article details this and says that as much as $900 million is being spent on this in Korea. That is [...]

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An article on the ABC Australia website details Google’s view of the Australian market.
Basically they see a lot of growth potential as the media spend is below 10% of total ad spend.
Should be a major push to [...]

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Seems the Japanese are pushing copyright violations against YouTube in an effort to have them pull thousands of videos from the site. According to an article in Adotas, YouTube removed about 30,000 videos at the request of [...]

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An article in the TimesOnline suggested the EU was trying to start requiring video bloggers to be regualted just like any other broadcast media.

How they could police this will be the challenge. If the US cannot stop gambling sites [...]

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According to the TimesOfIndia, Google is having problems finding the right employees in India.

Middle management seems to be an area Google has troubles finding suitable employees in the India area.

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It seems Rupert Murdoch – owner of Fox Media and MySpace – plans on launching a Chinese version of MySpace. If it is half as popular there then I think we will se MySpace as the number one visitied site [...]

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The newspapers in Australia are covering a developing story about laws being started to regulate adult content for mobile phones.

Though not strictly search, this restriction can have consequences to other industries on the web. Censorship needs to be regulated more [...]

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Seems the censorship problems in China have extended to the two largest Chinese portals: Sina and Sohu.

Adotas reports that the search engines at both have temporarily been suspended.

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Joyo, the Chinese Amazon.com, has signed a deal with Baidu for placement of ads on the Baidu site.

Joyo, which expanded into numerous ecommerce areas, is a prominent Chinese b2b player.

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Seems Google has come along and grabbed this Aussie’s algorithm. According to an SEOChat article, Google acquired the algorithm developed by a New South Wales University graduate student.

The Orion search engine hunts down pages where the content covers a [...]