The largest Chinese search engine, Baidu, was found guilty of “a breach of reasonable standard of care” by the Shanghai No.2 Intermediate People’s Court. The case involved a transportation company, Dazhong Banchang, whose company name was used in advertisements from another company. Baidu argued that it is only the advertiser and since it did […]

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Both WebProNews and Bloomburg are reporting on the comments made by Vladimir Dolgov, Head of Google Russia, that online ad sales will jump fivefold in Russia to reach $1 billion in 2010.
In 2010, Google believes its operations in Russia could be tapping a billion dollar Internet advertising market. 2007 saw Russia grow to a $200 […]

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A fascinating experiment in internet culture has been launched by Facebook who have localised their interface to the Chinese markets. As the Chinese markets are very concerned about ‘face’ - how will they cope with a ‘face’ book that means that even people you don’t know are described as friends.
This means that Facebook is […]

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comScore just released an interesting data about the search rankings in Asia-Pacific region. According to their data, Google and Yahoo were the regional leaders as “top search properties” followed by China’s Baidu.
“Because Google and Yahoo! have a strong presence in many Asia-Pacific countries, they account for the majority of searches conducted in the […]

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Techcrunch reports of Ex-Yahoo SVP and General Manager of Search Vish Makhijani becoming Yandex CEO have been denied by the company in a press release today.
Vish Makhijani has indeed joined Yandex but in the position of President and CEO of their new US technology and business development facility, “Yandex Labs” based in Silicone Valley, US. […]

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev joined calls for the country to be assigned an Internet domain name in the Cyrillic script, reports the Moscow Times on Wednesday as part of a Kremlin drive to promote Russian as a global language.
He said 300 million people worldwide used Russian media and that a Cyrillic domain name would be […]

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The latest report on information gathering in Japan shows that Internet plays a big part in people’s information gathering and decision making process. 95% of 500 survey participants said that they use Internet to gather information prior to purchasing products and services. 89.6% of them use “search engines” and 59% of them use “products/services comparison […]

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The Moscow Times reports that Turkmenistan has begun to allow private citizens to connect to the internet. The national internet provider, Turkmentelekom, said on Thursday that it has been connecting up to 20 homes a day since the announcement, mainly in the capital city of Ashgabat. It has a waiting list of 2000 people.
Previously internet […]

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Aegis Group plc has bought AdWatch in Russia to make the UK media buyer’s digital marketing unit Isobar the country’s number one in online media. Moscow headquartered AdWatch, founded in 2000, has gross assets of €9.5m and works for clients such as Microsoft, VTB Bank, SUN Interbrew, Canon and Rolf.
Russia is seeing major growth in […]

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The Moscow Times reports that Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia, plans to raise $1.5b to $2b in a New York IPO this fall. Their source has said that these expectations are based on a preliminary valuation of Yandex at $5 billion.
Meanwhile Google is looking to improve their performance in Russia, Google co-founder Sergei […]

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Joop Dorresteijn has started a series of posts which aim to explore the South Korean internet market. The series is not complete yet but one to bookmark if you’re looking for information on one of the most active internet markets globally.

Introduction to the South-Korean web series
A profile of the connectivity in South Korea
Why so little […]

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Opera Software, maker of the Opera browser, has recently released the first quarter study related to internet usage in relation with mobile phones using the Opera mini browser.
Information contained in the report is based on aggregated data from Opera Mini servers, and related to top 10 countries with the highest number of installation.
Read more: the […]

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Finally my presentation … I gave an overview on how to establish a multilingual international presence with a blog. I, like Multi-Lingual Search, use WordPress and based my presentation on that platform.
There is a paper I wrote with tips and information on multilingual blogging - you can download copy of the PDF here.
international bloggong […]

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Dixon Jones - Receptional
Getting indexed is the easy bit - problems arise when you start building brand - 3 elements are central to your placement

query
site
links

Now that links are imperative problems arise on how to interpret them. Social media amongst users of the same demographics will have an impact on your performance.
YAHOO! answers […]

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Kristjan Mar Hauksson - Nordic eMarketing
Technical issues can kill your website - missed opportunities. In many cases CMS is at the base of the problem.
People are more likely to click on URLs that are READABLE (transparent and understandable)  - all search engines still have problems with dynamic URLs (although they are getting better and better).
Languag […]

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Eyal Haik - WebCertain
45 companies out of 100 were examined - many of them have little global web presence.
There was an inconsistent approach to implementation (for examp on the TLDs)
Scorese ranged from 23 to 78% - a lot of room for improvement
13% had URLs translated
24% had a country selector
44% had websites setup with local country […]

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Barry Lloyd gives an interesting presentation on doing business in Asia.

All Asian countries are very very different
Cultures are different and totally different from western customs
Getting products in front of your target market is easier than any previous time in history
Research is critical to doing business abroad in Asia - understand culture and rules
opportunities are plentiful […]

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Volker Ballueder - Web Certain
PR to improve your organic ranking multilingual is growing fast with Africa at a fast growth rat.
PR Services:
E-newsletters
blogs
Forums
News Feeds
Video
One way is to optimise your press release - products & services - territories - customer promise - brands
Clickpress lesinfos.com repandre.com fastpitch i-newswire are just a few for consideration. More info on newscertain.com […]

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John Brenne - Geolocalisation, hosting and domain issues

Local links
Ip address
domains
language
telling the engine

what makes your site regional ?

your domain name
sublevel domains
country code
all require local links

you can identify the language with META TAGS (the Lufthansa website does this).
Search Engine and local hosting - any local requirements for hosting to achieve good rankings ? In general not really […]

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The International Search Summit kicks off this morning at the British Library with he welcome of Andy Atkins Kruger, introducing speakers and above all the international market where English is no longer the dominant language.
Geo.targeting and linguistics are introduced by Andy, there will be presentations during the day that will drill down and provide details.
Andy […]

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