Today sees the start of the Yahoo-Microsoft Search Alliance roll-out into Europe, with Yahoo! organic search results in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and Ireland being powered by Bing. This change has already been implemented in the US & … Read More
Google has officially launched AdWords Express, a new, easy Pay Per Click service for local businesses. Initially launched as Google Boost in October 2010, AdWords Express is an faster and easier way to start advertising online via AdWords: five minutes … Read More
And finally there it was: Google Plus (or +). Almost every blog, national and international, talked about it and it even made the news. And everyone had an opinion, despite of the fact that they had access or not. We … Read More
Google has launched a new crossover search portal called “What do you love?” under the http://www.wdyl.com domain name. It aggregates in a non Google conventional way your search query results: books news Google groups based discussions product search and shopping classic … Read More
For some years we have talked about BRIC countries as being amongst the most interesting for international search marketers to target. It was always inevitable that at some point we would need to come up with a new term and … Read More
Baidu, (BIDU) China’s largest search engine, unveiled the beta version of it’s new web browser. The Baidu browser contains more than 30,000 apps which connects users to online games, videos and other tools. The web browser is reported to have … Read More
Google received a warm reception to the announcement of its second quarter figures yesterday having been roundly criticised for losing control of its costs last quarter. The topline was a 32% revenue sales growth in the second quarter, compared with … Read More
International SEO, Geo-Targeting, Indexing International Social Signals and Search Marketing in Russia and Korea are just some of the topics on the agenda at the upcoming International Search Summit @ SMX East. Taking place on September 12th in New York … Read More
Nielsen reports that 41% of Malaysians accessed the Internet in 2010, a 15% increase over the previous year. People in the younder ranges of 20-24 were the highest users with 57% of them using the internet for just over 22 … Read More
You may never have heard of Neelie Kroes but now is the time to change that – she has the most profound influence over the future development of the global web of any human on the planet. How come? Neelie … Read More
Kakao Talk, a Korean Mobile Messaging App, is to launch an aggressive international campaign to grow its subscriber base and compete with global giants Facebook and Twitter. The free messaging service, which currently has 9 million subscribers in South Korea, … Read More
The International Search Summit Munich on 4 April covered a wide range of search topics – from in-house international PPC, to video optimisation, from display advertising to international SEO fundamentals, from search in Russia to international link building. There were … Read More
Following up on our previous article on the legal fight between Interflora UK vs. M&S on the Google Adwords UK network, here is the latest, the fight is raging on! Here is a quick wrap up of the situation: M&S … Read More
Adding to some of the educating posts from Gemma Birch on Video Marketing, my post today is about Google’s evolution of Google Adwords model into rich media: video PPC. Back in 2009, Google introduced the AdWords New Ad Formats Initiative … Read More
LinkedIn has announced today that it now has over 100 million users, 56% of which are based outside the US. This is a pretty impressive statistic for a company that started with no real intention of developing an international user … Read More
