Global Search Engine Marketing News from Global Experts

Tokyo: 

Japan’s biggest e-commerce site Rakuten announced that it will acquire Buy.com Inc for $250 million, foraying into the U.S. market for the first time as it steps up its push to expand overseas.

Earlier this year, Rakuten announced a joint venture [...]

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Lahore: 

Pakistan has become the latest country to censor internet access following so called sacrilegious content being posted on Facebook and YouTube.  A Facebook competition which invited users to post drawings and images representing the prophet Mohammed has sparked [...]

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Following a successful International Search Summit at London’s Barbican Centre last week, WebCertain can now announce the date for the next London Summit.

The sixth London event will take place on Thursday 28th October at The British Library, the venue [...]

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 [...]

Curitiba: 

Sir Martin´s WPP acquired online full service agency Midia Digital and search agency i-Cherry, both based out of Curitiba, south of Brazil.

i-Cherry top executive is brazilian search pioneer Alexandre Kavinski.

Here´s the official press release.

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 [...]

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It wasn’t all that long ago when acquiring a .com domain was considered essential to any successful business.

But times have changed.

I’m not suggesting that .com is going away. There are more than 96 million .com domains registered, which makes .com [...]

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 [...]

Executive Summary Report by the Broadband Observatory provides statistics on the status of high speed broadband internet connection in Italy.

London: 

Twitter, like Facebook before it, has become a global phenomenon. The company recently said on its blog that over 60% of Twitter users are based outside the United States and it now provides its interface in French, German, Italian, [...]

SEOTOASTER is an open source free Search Engine Friendly Content Management System (CMS), featuring automated 301 redirection creation, automated optimized on-site linking, available in several languages.

London: 

In January 2010, YouTube was the second most used search engine in the United States – a single statistic that demonstrates just how popular the medium has become. Video is used by a wide range of people for numerous different [...]

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 [...]

London: 

International link Building, duplicate content in multiple languages and geo-selection are just some of the topics discussed by WebCertain’s Andy Atkins-Krüger, when he spoke to SearchEngineWatch at SES London in February.

Andy’s key points from [...]

Audiweb, the Italian organisation providing data on the use of the Internet and on-line audiences, has published statistics related to the month of February 2010: There were 22,9 million active users in February 2010 On an average day 11,8 million users were active for 1 hour and 41 minutes Each user viewed 182 pages Males residing in the north west of Italy are the most active The online audience grew by 13% on a monthly basis and by 16,9% on a daily basis The average number of page viewes fell by 7,1% online time spent fell by 6,7% On an average day: 6,7 million men, and 5,1 million women were online Adults 35-54 were 45% while the age group 25-34 were 22% of those online 25% of the population is in the north west of Italy (3,7 million users) 22% in the north east (2 million) 22% in central Italy (2,2 million) 18% are on the south and Islands (3,6 million)

London: 

At an event focusing on online innovations, it would be impossible to not include video on the agenda. Bruce Daisley, Leader of YouTube and Display in the UK, will be at the International Search Summit on 13th May to [...]

Scottsdale: 

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registration company, stopped registering websites in China on Wednesday after it received demands for additional information about its existing customers. This was revealed in Congressional hearings focusing on Google’s decision to stop censoring [...]