The Guardian reports on the Russian government pushing for control of the internet inside Russian using Cyrillic characters not just to sit on top of the web pages - but controlling things at a domain level.
The issue here is that the Russian suffix .ru tranliterates into Cyrillic as .py or Paraguay’s domain name. Icann confirms […]

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2007 will be remembered as the year hackers became criminals according to a spokesmen of an antivirus company.
Hackers have aggregated into high tech gangs creating virus kits for rent or direct purchase. Nowadays all viral software is developed to damage computers for money …
Source: ANSA

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In a global marketplace, companies struggle when it comes to providing the best content to local search engines, many times insisting in having a main .com website, that often does not appear in local product searches.
There is no one solution to this problem, but, has a multi lingual SEO blog I think Multi Lingual Search […]

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The Schengen agreement has been extended from 15 countries to 24 giving a wider borderless Europe with no internal border controls or checks and an open market of over 400 million people. Coming into force on the 21st December, the Schengen agreement makes physical inter-trade between bordering countries easier to manage for marketers. […]

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On the 29th of November this year active domain number 20,000 became real in Iceland. The twist to this is that the 29th of November 2007 is very close to the 20 year birthday of the Internet in Iceland. The year was 1987, late fall, when the father of the Internet in Iceland, Maríus Ólafsson, […]

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Yahoo! China lost their appeal to the Beijing Higher People’s Court who upheld a lower court’s ruling in April that the company had violated copyright laws. Yahoo! China has insisted all along that it only provides links to websites for music search results and they should not be held liable for content provided by […]

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Beijing Guge Sci-Tech alleges that Google has infringed on the firm’s name. According to the court documents, the name “Guge” was officially registered in April 2006 by Beijing Guge Sci-Tech and Google didn’t register the name until November of 2007. Google’s response is that reports on the Internet showed that it intended to use the […]

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From Orli Yakuel’s Excellent(!) tech blog, two reviews of two Israeli Search companies – SortFix & Omgili :

Israel based SortFix offers a unique and fun way to search terms on the Web that currently works with Google,Yahoo! Or Dmoz search…The unique interface allows you to play with the suggested keywords, and create your […]

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I just saw an interesting data of mobile sites access in Japan (by BeTrend). It shows that Japanese access mobile sites the most on Thursday of the week, and from 9pm to midnight of the day. It’s a well known fact that people browse mobile sites on their spare time, and it’s no surprise that […]

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We may have to wait till 2009 for an Israeli SMX conference but the good news from Danny and the 3rd door media people is the announcement of the new SphinnCon:
“a new networking event series designed for Sphinners and anyone interested in internet marketing”
The first Sphinncon event will take place in Israel, February 5th, […]

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Dir.bg, one of the first and largest web portals in Bulgaria has just announced on its website the launch of a new standalone service - Diri.bg. “Diri” in Bulgarian is an old-style word for “Tarsi”(v), meaning - “Search”. This new service is in direct competition with the already existing Jabse (info: New Bulgarian search engine […]

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As was announced by several SEM blogs and media, Google launched internationally the navigational links in their homepage. This was a feature previously only available in Google.com (US).
The order of the links in the Portuguese version of Google (Google.pt) is now the following:
Web | Images | News | Groups | Calendar | Photos
This differs […]

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Baidu does a new take on the Google logos. It’s the person(s) of the month which started in November with a Mr. Xu Sandou, a famous soap opera star in China. This month features Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, two Chinese basketball players that have made it into the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the […]

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Yahoo launched a few weeks ago the Yahoo Go application for mobile in Brazil.
I have being using the 1.0 version in English for quite some time, but the new version keeps the same features, but now it’s avaiable in Brazilian portuguese (prior to that only portuguese from Portugal).
But it also still showing usability […]

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Acording to a recent report by iResearch, an internet marketing research company in China, the number of online shoppers is predicted to reach 100 million in 2010. The popularity of C2C sites like www.taobao.com and ebay.com.cn has given China netizens the opportunity to “test drive” ecommerce. The recent improvement in logistics, payment, credit and […]

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Export-Japan’s latest survey results show that more than 70% of Japanese top manufactures have English web site in addition to Japanese site. 1,684 top manufactures in Japan responded to the survey.
Honda offers the most language sites (36 languages) followed by Nissan (33), Sony and Mitsubishi (31 each). The most popular second language is the […]

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Yahoo recently added oneSearch capability, a search service designed for mobile users, to nine mobile operators in Asia. Those mobile operators include, DiGi Telecommunications (Malaysia), Starhub (Singapore), Aircel Limited (India), BPL Mobile (India), Bharat Sanchar Nigam (India), PT Hutchison CP Telecom (Indonesia) PT Indosat (Indonesia), PT Excelcomindo Pratama (Indonesia) and PCCW Mobile (Hong […]

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In an Hertzliya convention held by the Anti-Defamation League, Meir Brand, Google Israel CEO says:
“Google cannot decide which sites will be published on the world wide web, We obey to the law and as long as there isn’t a specific law regarding specific sites we will keep those sites in Google’s index”

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Russian search leader Yandex, has released their Autumn report on the current state of the blogosphere in Russia. As you might expect, the report is in Russian so I’ll give you some of the highlights here.
- There are now 3.1m blogs in Runet, 2.6 times larger than this time last year.
- The blogosphere in […]

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Baidu, the leading Chinese search engine is contemplating a secondary share listing in Hong Kong. Baidu is currently listed on the Nasdaq (BIDU) and is one of Google’s strongest rivals in China. The idea may have been brought about by the successful listing of Alibaba.com this past Tuesday.
Alibaba, a B2B website that is 40% […]

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