“25 editors around the globe at the beginning of 2007 - 50 by the beginning of 2008!”
As we start 2007, I reflect on a superb year for Multilingual Search where we have broken new ground and new territories around the world - including a number of exclusive stories There’s more to come - much […]

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The Business Standard of India reported that Yahoo! was opening a research lab in Bangalore, India.
Yahoo is also starting their “Big Thinkers” lectures in India in January 2007.

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According to Analysys International, an Internet based provider of business information, the China search engine market will see a compound annual growth of more than 30% from 2006 to 2010 based on its recently released report “China Search Engine Market Forecast 2006 — 2010″. Revenue for China’s search engine providers is expected to reach […]

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Yahoo! China sued Qihoo back in late September of this year for unfair competition. The lawsuit claimed that Qihoo software, known as “360safe”, prompts users to de-install the Yahoo! Toolbar. The prompt made users believe that the toolbar was “malware”, and was difficult or almost impossible to remove.
“Their activities reflect […]

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The Australian Federal Court ruled against a web site that provided links to illegal download sites and the ISP that provided hosting for the site.
The Associated Press reported the court’s ruling could have impact on search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

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A typical middle-sized company in Portugal has a website on the Internet, 85% of big companies do. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the website has probably never been updated since 1998, it’s in flash, you can’t find any product listings and the contact page (when there is one) […]

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Yahoo Answers was launched less than a year in Brazil, but the country already accounts for second largest number of answers in the world.

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After a year full of controversies due to Orkut, Google opened its new office to celebrate the first anniversary. 2007 may be a new begining for Google, since there are some important changes in its team: Google Brasil #1 employee and former sales manager was fired. And to improve the relationship with agencies […]

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Het Financieele Dagblad, the leading financial newspaper in the Netherlands, reports that a study by CoolBranding has given Google top spot for being not only the leading site in the Netherlands - but also the ’strongest’ brand. Second was Ipod followed by Nike, Nokia and BMW. Microsoft was the winner last year […]

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US based online auction company EBay Inc. is exiting the China market. eBay said its China-based subsidiary, eBay EachNet, and TOM Online will enter into a joint venture. where eBay will take 49 percent stake and Tom Online Inc., an Internet company based in Beijing will hold a 51% stake. The […]

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Heavier users of the internet are switching to Firefox in greater numbers in the UK, says Nielsen//NetRatings. According to their latest report, by September 2006 almost 12% of UK users had adopted Firefox.
Whilst for web marketing campaigns, 12% isn’t a huge number it still cannot be ignored. Which retailer would willing stop 12% […]

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The NY Times is carrying an article on Google’s lack of progress in Russia to date. Like the Chinese market, this is area which is dominated by the local players.
“Google promised they would destroy everything, but look at where they are,” said Irina Gofman, chief executive of Rambler Media, one of Google’s Internet portal […]

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Heise.de brings us the news (in German) that the German Government will be moving away from co-operation with the French over the search engine research project ‘Quaero’ even creating their own new project with a new name ‘Theseus’.
The announcement came from Germany’s Economics minister, Hartmut Schauerte, at an IT Summit in Potsdam. […]

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Chinese search site Baidu.com has signed a deal with Microsoft to sell advertising for MSN in China. Baidu’s paid search ads will appear on the Chinese versions of MSN, Live Search and other Micrsoft web properties.
Baidu who recently announced it will enter the Japanese market is the fourth most visited […]

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RSS feeds are very convenient way to obtain the information without visiting each web site, and more and more Japanese are using the services.
Despite the initial concern of some of the sites may lose the number of access by providing the RSS service, the latest research done by Japan.Internet.com and goo Research shows that RSS’s […]

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Yahoo Japan has announced its 2006 Search word ranking. (Jan 1 - Nov 5, 2006)
The results shows new trend in the search words used at Yahoo Japan this year. In over all ranking, the ultimate bulletin board service site “2 Channel”, who has been ranked #1 for the past several years, finally lost its position […]

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Indian search engine Guruji announced it will now power India One.
India One is a news portal, while Guruji is an Indian search engine started in this past October.

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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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Google Inc. announced Co-President Johnny Chou ( Zhou Shaoning) will resign at the end of the year in order to pursue personal interests. Mr. Chou, Google’s Greater China co-president in charge of sales and business development, first joined the company in China in October 2005. Rumours have been circulating for several weeks and this […]

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Jabse is the name of the new player in search in Bulgaria. In a market, dominated entirely by Google (over 90% if you compare it to pure search engines) this new entry looks like a very brave move…

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