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Have you ever wondered what the Japanese, Arabic or even Turkish press are saying in the news today ? Well it may now be possible for the monoglot community to ‘read’ and ‘understand’ different languages.

Indeed, the World Wide Lexicon [...]

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The BBC reports that Lee Kai-Fu will leave his post as President of Google Greater China during September adding to a bumpy period for Google in China. After 4 years, he will be replaced by John Liu who [...]

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Yahoo has announced it is to acquire Maktoob.com, the leading online community in the Arab world with more than 16.5 million unique users. This also means that Yahoo will acquire control of the original Arabic search engine – Al [...]

According to data presented in recent hitwise report, ranking 27 th most popular wesbite and 4 th most popular website in Computers and Internet – Social Networking and Forums (Source: Hitwise )

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Google’s recent sales performance are generally regarded as ’slightly down’ or static depending on your point of view. However, as the “Use International Search Marketing – Just Like Google” article I published on Search Engine Watch shows, a [...]

The study examined a sample of US Tweets and provides interesting insights on how people are using Twitter: * 40% of Tweets are BLA BLA (people talking … about themselves) * 37% are conversational (people talking to people) * 8.7% are informational (RE TWEETS, people relaying useful, interesting information) The report provides numerous metrics including a section called Why Teens Aren’t Using Twitter where a 15 year old intern at Morgan Stanley finds Twitter not safe, and explains why teens prefer FaceBook and MySpace.

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iPerceptions survey data from Q2 2009 is available for download at the iPerceptions Resource Center.

Report highlights:

Hospitality websites struggle to convert visitors into bookings
Only 60% of users actually completed a transaction during the course of their visit
4 in 10 visitors [...]

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Could the Microsoft-Yahoo deal be the start of something much bigger in terms of the power balances on the web? This post on Search Engine Watch blog examines the potential for the new deal to be the start [...]

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Via Adage, ComScore has revealed the Google share by market showing the Google domination in many markets alongside discrepancies such as Korea where Google has a dismal share of the market. Western Europe has stronger Google shares than [...]

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On July 29, GREE (gree.jp), one of the biggest SNS sites in Japan, announced its financial report from June. The report shows that they had 374% increase in sales and 696% increase in profit compare to June of last year.

Since [...]

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7 organizations such as Internet Associations in Japan are getting together to set up Japanese Internet Domain Name Conference (the final name may change). The main purpose of the conference is to set the regulations and standards for new Japanese [...]

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As part of its efforts to revamp the international operations, internal sources from MySpace Brazil already confirmed that the office will remain open only until June 30th. MySpace opened its local office 2 years ago.

Still remains a mistery what [...]

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Ask.jp announced that they will end the search service on June 25. They ad services has been ended in May. The search services include web, blog, products and category search. Ask opened its beta version in August 2004, and the [...]

Starting Jun 5 th 320 of the 390 McDonald’s restaurants in Italy are offering free WiFi to their Clients.

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The French are using more and more their mobile phones to get into the internet. Studies (Ipsos MediaCT) show that in April 2008, only 28% of them were surfing the WWW, and now they are more than 31%. Not such [...]

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According to Danwei, a popular Chinese media, advertising, and urban life blog, the following sites are now blocked in China. Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, Live and Bing. It appears that Bing, the new Microsoft search engine is being blocked because [...]

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SMX will arrive in Brazil for its second show on August 4th.

Key notes were announced last week: Danny Sullivan, Erica Schmidt (Isobar) and SEMPO’s President Sara Houlobek are some of the international speakers.

Unlike 2008, this year’s SMX SP (possible [...]

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Yahoo Japan has been providing the analytic tool for Geocities Plus (paid) Members since March 2009, and just announced that the tool is now available for free to all registered (Yahoo ID holders) users.

This easy to user tool [...]

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SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) Asia Tour and Seminars aim to foster awareness, educate, and promote the search industry in Asia by connecting professionals in the regions and Western markets, and creating a better understanding of search and its [...]