Google Universal Search, the new “search model” recently launched by Google is starting to appear in the Portuguese SERPs (Google.pt).
Until recently search results in Portuguese did not include anything more than simples websites. A couple weeks ago we noticed the appearance of “search suggestions” in the bottom portion of the Google page.
Now we increasingly […]

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Overture Japan announced their new program “Overture’s Technology Solutions Partner Program” for the partners. As a part of this program, they’ll offer the sponsored search API: “Enterprise Web Services (EWS)”. The program is set to start at the end of August.
With API offered through this program, the functions offered by a sponsored search can be […]

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Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia with 55% market share, has released a report on the current state of contextual advertising in Russia. Their data comes from their advertising platform, Yandex Direct and covers the period from January 2006 to June 2007.
Key Findings

Yandex Direct showed 140m adverts per day
1.2/1.3m advert clicks per day
Contextual […]

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UOL (#1 ISP and top 5 web destination) and Buscapé (#1 comparison shopping website in Brazil and latin America) are leaving Yahoo’s content network.
Google now has partnerships with all major brazilian horizontal portals, but Yahoo and MSN: iG, UOL and Terra are part of search and content network; Globo.com ( webdestination owned by Globo TV […]

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The quarterly report from the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) shows there are now 29m Internet users in Russia. Over the past 4 years this has increased by 150%: from 10% to 25% of the total population.
Included in this figure are those users who visit the internet at least once within 6 months. The total […]

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A News Flash from ANSA publishes the results of a survey on blogs and the quality/reliability of the blogosphere.
Splinder, Swg, University of Trieste and Punto Informatico joined forces to interview 4,000 bloggers and blog readers.

Blogs are viewed as more interesting than newspapers as information is unfiltered and free from editorial guidelines.
The truth […]

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Google has won preliminary approval from China’s Ministry of Information and Industry to provide content in China, however further requirements for final approval are unknown. Baidu.com was granted an Internet news content service license earlier this year. Last year the Ministry of Information was investigating Google’s licensing as it was reported that Google […]

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According to “Internet White Paper 2007″ by Inpress R&D, Japan’s Internet population is 82.2 Million, which is more than 60% of Japan’s population. The Internet population increased about 10% from 2006. It shows that the age group 50s and up had a huge increase in Internet population this year.
It also shows that people are spending […]

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Microsoft Corp. and Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., a major Chinese TV manufacturer announced they will jointly develop entertainment products that will link the Internet and television. The Internet has developed as a channel to distribute movies and television programs.
Roger Chen, a Microsoft spokesman in Beijing said “The project focuses on in-home network digital entertainment […]

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Mail.ru have launched a new search engine into Runet this week, called "GoGo".
GoGo allows you to search for web pages, pictures, photo and video files. In addition, area search index included Otvety.mail.ru service. The search engine currently indexes 1 billion Web pages, 100 million photographs and 500 thousand video files.
Mail.ru have built their popularity […]

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OLX, the online classified service, have announced their expansion into the Russian market. The company provides a similar service to CraigsList, where users are encouraged to place free classified adverts for products or services.
Working already in 35 countries, OLX usually advertises through Google Adwords. However it seemed natural for them to partner with Yandex […]

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On June 6th, SEMPO Japan has announced the results of their 3rd annual Japanese SEM research at Net Marketing Forum in Tokyo.
K. Fukasawa (SEMPO Japan) and Motoko Hunt (SEMPO Asia/Japan) - me! gave the presenation.
The main findings of the research are:
- About 50% said they do both SEO and PPC, while more than 35% […]

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As SEMPO is a fairly unknowned brand in the region it was not many that thought the SEMPO Scandinavian event was going to be as big as it turned out to be!
The group managed to attract 120 people to the event where 4 search engines, Eniro, Yahoo, Microsoft and Sesam had 15 min each […]

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Major Chinese portal Sina has signed a partnership deal with Google, according to MarketWatch.com. Google will provide a search box on the Sina pages, while Sina will provide Chinese news to Google.
The partnership has been the topic of discussion for over a month, with BusinessWeek suggesting Google could be looking to buy Sina.

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I just found the Google multilingual search tool.
It is a good starting point, but remember to try a keyword suggestion tool to find the words that may actually be used. Looking at what the local sites are using for keywords is a good start.

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C-News reports that Google has launched its first ever advertising campaign in Russia. While usual Google policy is to rely on word of mouth to build support, they have decided to change policy in Runet.
Google’s advertising banners appeared on the websites of a number of large internet resources, such as Gazeta.ru, Eurosport.ru, Gismeteo.ru and […]

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This week comScore released a study on the most popular internet properties across Europe. As you would expect, Google is the most popular destination in 13 of the 16 countries surveyed.
However the results show that Google has made less progress in Russia than other statistics would indicate. Yandex was rated first, then Mail.ru followed by […]

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Rambler Media, the holding group for the Rambler search portal, have published their end of year results for 2006 today.
Report highlights:

Internet Revenue up 91% on year to US$28.3m (from US$14.8m in 2005)
24.4m unique monthly users for Rambler.ru portal in Dec 2006, up 25% on last year
2 billion monthly page views in Dec 2006, up […]

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So, finally we will see a Google maps section in Sweden!
Great to see it launching but It will probably not be a big difference from the big Google map we have already seen apart from local content.
The local search engines Eniro and hitta.se will now be facing competition in a field they have been […]

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Yandex, the leading Russian search engine, announced today the opening of a new office in Kiev. One of the main thrusts of the new branch of Yandex will be to develop existing services for Ukrainian users.
Ukraine is promising market for Yandex, where they currently fight for position with Google. Latest statistics show that […]

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