I just read the survey taken by OPT and Cross Marketing with 300 male and female Blog and SNS users in Japan. It has interesting results about what have the impact on Japanese consumers in purchasing products and services.
Q. What media do you use to obtain and share the information of the product and […]

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China’s online advertising market reached RMB 3.23 billion in 2005, ($40 millionUSD) and is expected to reach RMB 4.39 billion ($55 million USD) in 2006 according to Analysys International. Search engine advertising is fueling this growth. Baidu, Sina, Sohu, and Yahoo! China, account for nearly 60% of of the market. Baidu and Google […]

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Times have got harder for the online gambling industry in Russia as Rambler, the No.2 search engine has decided to stop accepting PPC advertising for the gambling/poker sector. Earlier this year I reported on the new law introduced to restrict advertising for the sector. Although this law was a little ambiguous when it came to […]

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Google Brazil presented this week its Click to Call system to a selected group of marketers.
Launch is scheduled for early September.

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Search friends,
This will be my first blog at Multilingual Search and I am really happy to have join this brilliant blog team.
Funny enough my first blog will give you news about Denmark, although I am originally Swedish.. but the news is interresting from at least a Nordic perspective.
Google has just posted a job […]

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Google’s Gmail account is now available for general public without an invitation in Japan.
Currently, Google is the default search engine on mobile “au” through the tie-up with KDDI. Gmail may become “au”’s mobile mailer soon???
Gmail is also available without an invitation in Australia and New Zealand.

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“Obon” (Aug 10-16) is one of the biggest holiday season in Japan. More and more people use Internet to obtain leisure related information such as travel booking, attraction, and weather. On the other hand, people are busy with their vacation schedule, and spend less time on the Internet.
According to the research done by […]

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Reuters reports that the Dutch farmer dating site (supported by the FNV Union) has lost their court case in Amsterdam.
The judge ruled that the keywords (in broadmatching) “farm” and “date” were too general. The combination (Farm-date, Farmdate etc.) however can be protected so there is no harm for the Farmers. When Farm Date’s owner […]

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Google Book Search was launched this week in Brazil. Its the first version targeting South America. The publishers already involved are: Senac, Callis, Boitempo, Planeta, Grupo Oceano, UIA, Editorial Norma, Random House Mondadori, Longseller, Iteso e Editora Pedagógica e Universitária.
Google didn’t disclose how many publications are available for search.

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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 than the people they also seek to limit. Unfortunately Australia does not have a […]

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Read/Write Web has issued a new report on web 2.0 applications in Spain

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internet-pro offers information on the dynamics of DSL pricing over the last 12 months taken from an emarketer.com report The results of the analysis show …

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Bruno Fiorentini, Yahoo Brazil’s President since company started in 1998, is moving to Australia, where he will lead Yahoo/7 operations. Yahoo/7 is a joint venture with Channel 7.
He will be replaced by Guilherme Ribenboim, currently General Manager of Yahoo Search Marketing Latin America. Guilherme works for Yahoo since 1999 and started as Business development […]

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A recent study provides information on the development of social networks and their impact on Internt traffic distribution worldwide …

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Don’t miss a first-class event on Internet Marketing, the fastest growing marketing sector in the world. Organised by Nordic eMarketing in cooperation with Multilingual search and one of Internets most influential person Chris Sherman.
Nordic eMarketing ltd. Reykjavik Iceland invites you to an International Marketing
event in Reykjavik held on November 2nd and 3rd 2006. This […]

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Leit.is opens search.is specially for foreign markets. This is a crawler based engine writen in the US by a partly owned Icelandic company, MUNAX LLC.

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UK Plus reports that recent campaigns offering broadband for free in the UK (alongside telephone calls) has resulted in the worst quarter the industry has known in recent times - just 730,000 lines were added in the most recent quarter.
As far as the delaying factor is concerned, this could be due to companies, such as […]

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Israel court of law, in a new verdict allows an Israeli clothes company to use its competitor name for AdWords searches conducted via google.co.il.
This is the first Israeli case in which the judge rules in favour of the sued company.
In it’s verdict, Judge Magen Altubia states that a search engine is an ad based media, […]

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Overture Japan began serving ads to Japan’s No.1 social networking service “mixi” on July 27. The content-match ads appear on the mixi content search results pages.
On July 26, mixi announced that its membership reached 5 million on July 24.
mixi member:
- Female (50.5%), Male (49.5%)
- 19 and younger (8.5%), 20’s (62.0%), 30’s (22.9%), […]

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According to a recent survey by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) the number of Internet users in China has increased nearly 20 percent over the past year to 123 million. China currently ranks second to the U.S. in the number of online users (205 million). There is plenty of room for growth in […]

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