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Multilingual-Search Editor - Motoko Hunt - wins SEMPO President’s award

  Apr 27, 2009

Motoko Hunt has won the Inaugural President’s Award from the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO). Motoko has been a consistent and hardworking contributor to Multilingual-Search with great insights on the Japanese search market. We cannot think of anyone more deserving! Congratulations! Keep up the good work! As reported by […]

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Baidu accused of being a monopoly

  Apr 23, 2009

Baidu.com, China’s leading search engine company, has been accused of being a monopoly by the Tangshan Renren Information Service Company (TRISC) who is demanding more than 1.1 million renminbi (USD $160,000) in compensation. The suit was opened at the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court on April 22, 2009. Baidu refused an out of court […]

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Baidu to launch new advertising programme and 3G search

  Apr 20, 2009

China Knowledge reports that Baidu Chief Executive, Robin Li, revealed at the Boao Forum for Asia that Baidu is launching a new advertising programme AND a 3G solution for this year - but has no plans to expand outside of China and Japan, for the moment.

The new advertising programme is entitled “Phoenix Nest” or “Fengchao” […]

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Google international stability masks 7% fall in Google US revenues

 

Google’s has reported turnover for the first quarter of 2009 at 3% down on the previous quarter globally - but international revenues actually grew by 0.49% from $2,850 billion to $2,864 billion disguising a significant 7.23% fall in US turnover. UK turnover was $733 million compared with $684 million in the previous quarter - […]

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Plaxo to demonstrate localization ‘by vote’ at London’s International Search Summit - Social Media

 

Social Networking site Plaxo is expanding its global network of sites by using the technique member sourcing’ to produce its localisations. The nature of social networking applications and features renders traditional translation ineffective as many of the terms do not have equivalents in other languages. Plaxo’s approach involves a portal which allows users to suggest […]

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UK sees the return of Jeeves the butler for Ask

 

Three years ago I attended the Jeeves retirement party in New York when IAC showed the famous ‘Jeeves’ butler frozen in ice - the implication was always that Jeeves would one day be back. And back he certainly is in the UK as reported by non-less than the BBC - and he’s offering prizes […]

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Google takes 89.57% of French search engine traffic - March

  Apr 17, 2009

The newly named AT Internet Institute, formerly XiTiMonitor, has published its survey of French search engine activity for March putting Google just under 90% - this is despite a change in their methodology which now measures search engine traffic in France emanating only from France and not from other countries. Live Search is in 2nd […]

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Comscore has Facebook taking first place in Spain

  Apr 16, 2009

According to Comscore Facebook took first place in Spain for the first time in February. Comscore’s statistics also put Facebook in 6th place of most popular web properties worldwide with 275 million visitors in February. This works out at a 314% growth in Comscore’s Europe.

With the addition of Spain, Facebook now has first […]

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Ebay consumes Korean competitor - helps Yahoo

 

ORF.at reports that Ebay has acquired 67% of South Korean competitor Gmarket for $1.2 billion and becomes the market leader in South Korea. Ebay has already bought 67% of shares listed on the New York NASDAQ.

Large beneficiaries of the move are both Yahoo and Interpark which were major shareholders in Gmarket owning a combined […]

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Search Marketing Expo in London for the 3rd time

  Apr 13, 2009

SMX will be held in London for the third time, the conference is lead by Chris Sherman and is a two day event taking place on the 18th and the 19th of May this year. Among speakers are several Multilingual Search Editors and keynote is the Chairman and CEO, OgilvyOne Worldwide, Brian Featherstonhaugh. For […]

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Sweden has a 30 percent drop in Internet use

 

Internet usage in Sweden droped sharply after new file sharing laws. This legislation makes it possible to order any Swedish Internet operator to provide details identifying suspected copyright infringers. The effects of the new laws were almost instant. The day the laws came into effect, local news media Netnod reported that Internet traffic was 30 […]

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96% of Reykjavik has fast internet connection

  Apr 12, 2009

According to a survey done by Statistics Iceland for the year 2008, Reykjavik has nearly 100% penetration of fast connection that is (ADSL or other types of xDSL connections), this changes very little when comes to region outside, goes down to 90%. So of a population of 319.326 some 305.000 have good access to the […]

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Baidu launches search for seniors

 

Baidu.com, the world’s leading Chinese search, launched a specially designed search engine for seniors. The search engine which is more like a portal is named named “Baidu Elderly Search” in Chinese. The design helps older users by emphasizing clicking on links as opposed to entering characters. It is a clean design with large fonts and […]

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Japanese Internet market is still growing

 

Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released the latest Internet population data in Japan. According to the report, there were more than 90.9 million Internet users in Japan as of January 2009, which is 2.8 million more than the date from January 2008.
The data also shows there were 82.55 million Internet users from PC, […]

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21.7million Japanese visited YouTube in Feb’09

  Apr 11, 2009

According to comScore Japan’s access ranking report on entertainment sites for February 2009, 45.7 million Japanese visited entertainment sites during the month of February, which is about 74% of Internet users in Japan. (The data includes the accesses from PC at offices and homes, and doesn’t include the accesses from mobile, PDA, or PC accesses […]

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WIMAX now Reality in Italy

  Mar 30, 2009

A mountainous territory, crossed by the valley of the river Tiber, Umbria represents the Ideal place for such an installation, connecting regions where DSL and Optical fibers are not a viable solution.

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Ask.com messing up in Brazil

  Mar 11, 2009

This is for those of you fans of international PPC: Ask.com is running a PPC campaign in Brazil trying to drive more users to its search engine.
But when you do a search on Google for restaurante São Paulo (restaurant São Paulo) you get an ad poorly written using the dynamic keyword insertion tool.

Ad copy […]

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Nielsen report: Brazil leads the world in social network websites

  Mar 10, 2009

According to a new Nielsen report Brazil is the country with more people using social networks websites. Brazilian users are also leading on time spent.
Nielsen reports that 80% of online users in Brazil are registered on social networks, followed by Spain with 75%, Italy 73% and Japan 70%.
Facebook is the leading network in the world […]

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Members of Parliament Scheduled for Class on the Web

 

Politics and Politicians are more often than not known to promote laws, rules and more in general legislation without knowing much about the Web and the underlying complexity of the media.

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SEM Conference Bulgaria - 2009

  Mar 8, 2009

For the first time a search engine marketing conference if to take place in Bulgaria. The event is named “SEO Conference 2009″ and it has every chance to become *the* web event of the year (in Bulgaria). The main purpose of the conference is to bring together SEO and SEM specialists, site owners and online […]

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