Only a few days ago, several Spanish media players such as Cinco Dias, Baquia and El Pais Published articles about a new social search engine called Gennio. Not only does the engine sport an innovative line of services, but it also stands out by being a search engine with truly Spanish roots. Jose Mercader’s idea, […]

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said, “Microsoft Israel’s R&D centers will play an important role in our global R&D strategy. Moshe Lichtman’s (the new R&D center manager and former IPTV devision vice president in Microsoft) vision and vast experience of product development and management makes him the ideal candidate for the task of driving forward our R&D efforts in Israel and furthering our cooperation with Israel’s high-tech industry and venture capital sector.”

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This piece of information might be slightly outdated, but it is nonetheless worth mentioning. On September 16th, I wrote about ICANN’s approval of the .cat top level domain (TLD). It was certainly a big deal. The decision to open way to so called “cultural and/or linguistic” domains, starting with Catalonia, where the debate about the […]

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Search Engine Strategies has opened for business today in Milano, the first SES conference to be held in Italy. The turn up has been significant considering the event being a first time. 20 sessions ranging from organic positioning to pay per click campaigns are scheduled - amongst today’s sessions featured Keynote Speaker Jim Lanzone, recently […]

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Israel biggest web players and the popularity of search

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Threadwatch carries the news that Seekport are partnering with an Arabic company to create a new Arabic language search engine:
“There is no (full) Arabic Internet search engine on the market. You find so-called search engines, but they involve a directory search, not a local search. There’s nothing available for overall Internet […]

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Threadwatch and ThomasB report that Google has extended the GoogleMaps application to cover many more countries in Europe. Then have even followed route E30 all the way to Moscow!
As Thomas writes, the implications for local search are significant. With multilingual searches and user reviews this can become a useful tool for companies marketing into the […]

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Nigma.ru, the Russian search engine run and supported by Moscow State University, has announced a partnership with Softmart.ru, a leading hardware provider in the country. The main result of this deal is the provision of 100 new high performance servers, enabling Nigma.ru to expand the project.
The servers will be used for the needs […]

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SEMPO Japan has announced the results of Japanese SEM market research at the SES Tokyo on April 20.
The results show that more than 60% responded that they use SEM as a mean to improve the brand recognition, and more than 31% responded that they have a separate budget for SEO in 2006.
Overall results show that […]

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One of Japan’s oldest search sites, goo, has added “encyclopedia search” button on its dictionary search service, “goo dictionary“. This is the first tie-up search service with Wikipedia in Japan.
goo dictioary has about 3 million users/month, and one of goo’s most popular services.
Wilipedia now has more than 200,000 Japanese pages.

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Last weekend saw the launch of the first Internet and Business conference to be held in Russia. It was a prestigious event and most of the companies and individuals shaping the new Runet were in appearance. With the current surge in investment and growth, the atmosphere was charged. It was a celebration of the last […]

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Paul Gigot of Fox News interviewed James McGregor, former Wall Street Journal China Bureau Chief and the author of “One Billion Customers: Lessons of from the Frontlines of doing Business in China.” McGregor will be a keynote speaker at adTech in San Francisco this week.
GIGOT: What about this issue of the Internet companies, […]

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Yandex, the Russian mega-portal, have released a new auto-focus tool for their PPC system, Yandex Direct. This will give marketers the ability to let the system select similar keyword terms for their adverts.
As you might expect the auto-focus is based on the statistics Yandex holds on their user searches. It will delete or add […]

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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 topic that is strongly related to the searched-for keyword or phrase. It returns a section of […]

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A recent survey reported by SPOT & WEB Media Communications Magazine shows an increase in search engine usage as a key element to identify products, independent of their value, prior to purchasing on line or off line.

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Search Engine Watch reports that Google is to open a research and development centre in Russia, run by Sergei Burkov, Founder & CEO of Dulance

Google plans to use Russia’s phenomenal engineering talent to help develop great new products both for the Russian market and globally. According to the Russian Software Developers Association (RUSSOFT) Russia has […]

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Multilingual Search doesn’t normally report on news from search marketing agencies - but the news that Danish search marketing firm Notabene is to float on the Danish stock exchange is somewhat close to home: Rasmus Sørensen of Multilingual Search is its R & D director.
The news release on the flotation is here.
Good luck to Rasmus […]

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Nigma.ru have released a press release today to mark their 1st birthday, which was officially on 12th April. The Nigma.ru metasearch engine was developed as a project by the students and graduate students at the psychology faculty of Moscow State University (MGU). They have been fairly successful, taking 0.3% of the search market and […]

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I stumbled on a new creation of Spurl Ltd, an Iceland-based search engine company. The URL is www.zniff.com and it obviously is still in a testing phase. They claim that you search the entire Web or 8 million Icelandic pages. If they crawled the entire web or are buying those results from another […]

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In a move that was praised by the People’s Daily, eleven news websites backed a call for self-censorship and the eradication of pornographic and violent content on the internet . Fourteen portals in China also announced earlier that they were blocking “unhealthy” content. They urged other portals to join them in this action. […]

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