Google will launch the new version of its search engine using the China “.cn” suffix. A Chinese-language version of Google’s search engine was available at the .com address but because of the Chinese government’s filtering it was often inaccesible or the reults led nowhere. Google will not offer its Gmail e-mail service, web log […]

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Yahoo announced yesterday that it is expanding its research facilities in both Europe and Latin America.
Web retrieval expert, Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates - a new hire - will work in the Barcelona office - the first addition in Europe.

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Takafumi Horie, founder of Liverdoor - a major Japanese portal - has been jailed along with other members of the executive board following allegations of breaches in the country’s Securities Exchange Law.
The beleaguered company has dropped more than 60% in value in the past week.

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Shakil Khan, well known commentator and "Man on The Ground" in China, reports on the hype surrounding online opportunities in the country.
What I see around me is a lot of "Smoke and Mirrors" activity taking place, and I think sooner or later somebody is going to get their fingers burnt, and frankly speaking, […]

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At the 6th Fiber Optics EXPO in Tokyo, Japan, Mr. Tamada of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications gave a speech about “Next generation broadband plan 2010″.
He said, “The next generation broadband plan 2010 aims to grow Japan as a front runner who leads the world in the IT industry.” As a part of […]

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MSN Japan began to offer MSN search tool bar for enterprises with the Windows desk top search tool for free.
This desk top search searches more than 200 types of files in e-mails, documents, image files, music files, video files, PDF files, etc.
For detail, see MSN Japan Enterprise page.

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According to news on SEW is Google currently testing a feature which we know from the Dutch Search Engine Zoeken.nl as keyword-clustering. Google offers this new tool as a “quick result”. We have already seem this tool at Google Base but this is the first time that it is applied in the regular organic search […]

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“Don’t be evil? Don’t trust Google!”
Google was accused by a Korean community site(www.humoruniv.com) of not paying the Korean site for having Google’s AdSense on its Web site for two months. The site was supposed to receive a check of around 20 million won, but only received an e-mail from Google saying that it terminated […]

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Keynote Systems (Nasdaq “KEYN”), conducted a study of 1,200 internet users in China and Google outperformed its competitors in 11 of 13 factors measured. Chris Sherman, Associate Editor at Search Engine Watch blogs about this study and adds some great background information. It’s hard to tell what this means when CCID Consulting Co., […]

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Microsoft’s grand plans to provide free software and services over the internet are predicated on generating ad revenue via adCenter (still in beta) to catch up with Google and Yahoo by offering what they don’t - ads targeted by gender, age, ZIP code, time of ad delivery and so on . Microsoft is betting on […]

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Forget ‘pay per call’, PagesJaunes.fr - the French Yellow Pages organisation’s online division - has just launched a free version for its advertisers. From now on, anyone who advertises online will be able to include a free telephone number which gives them the opportunity, says Pages Jaunes “To generate qualified leads at lower […]

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In a busy week of consolidation for Russian search engines, Rambler has purchased 51% of Price Express, a leading e-commerce Internet company and owner of several high profile web sites in RuNet.
Price Express operates the internet portals Price.ru, Domoteka.ru and Tyndex.ru, which provide price and product comparison tools designed to help online shoppers make […]

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Yandex, the Russian mega-portal has signed a partnership deal with Mail.ru, one of the largest sites in the RuNet. Mail.ru provides email and portal services, much like Hotmail.com, and currently has a 5.7% stake in the Russian search market. Google had been providing the search facilities on this popular portal up to the end of […]

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The China Search Marketing Tour will visit Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing where the participants will attend the first Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo to be held in China. As you’ve no doubt read here at Multilingual Search, the China search engine market is exploding and many search marketing companies will take advantage of being […]

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The Guardian newspaper reports today on a gala event in Shanghai where the rich of China voted on their favourite brands - alongside Ferrari and Armani their favourite search engine brand turns out to be Baidu.
We’ve spoken a lot about China in Multilingual Search recently - but as the Guardian report says, the Chinese are […]

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Microsoft in a bid to keep up with Baidu, Yahoo! China and Google has opened an “adlab” in China. This research lab will focus on improving Microsoft’s pay per click advertising program, adCenter. Microsoft originally tested adCenter in Singapore.
Source: Vnunet.com

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The first Google offline content ads appeared in the ‘Sun-Times’, as reported by the Chicago Times on 12 December. They have closed a deal which allows them to fill a column on the right with 15 positions. They even seem to be relevant too!

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A recent article at CMO magazine discusses the subtleties of marketing in China.
The use of guanxi - your “network of influence” or your sphere of friends and acquaintences - is explained as being far more valuable than other Western marketing methods.

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As seen on Threadwatch, Forbes is running an article on the Google taking market share from Yahoo! within international markets.
Citing data culled by comScore, Bear Stearns said Google’s international market share in November rose to 71.3% from 68.9% in the prior month. Google’s growth rate was almost double the rate of that of the […]

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On December 27, Microsoft, Japan Telecom and Softbank BB announced the development of “Messenger Joint Communication Services” with their strategic partnership.
This service ensures the security by combining the network infrastructure and the services such as VoIP, E-mail, internet access, group ware, instant messaging, and desktop.
They plan to start providing the solutions to corporations in Spring […]

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