John Brenne – Geolocalisation, hosting and domain issues Local links Ip address domains language telling the engine what makes your site regional ? your domain name sublevel domains country code all require local links you can identify the language with … Read More
Google has added ten new languages to its translation service bringing the total to 23, Google also added a “detect language” option for those that need. The languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish. … Read More
Google has announced it’s first quarter financial results in 2008 showing a 42% increase in turnover (revenues) from the same quarter in 2007. In the same timescale, click volumes have increased by a mere 20% showing the value per click … Read More
Google has changed its trademark policy for the UK and Ireland bringing it into line with its policy for the US and Canada. What this means in practice is that for trademark complaints relating to its Adwords programme, from now … Read More
I read a Hitwise article explaining how rising Polish population in the UK is reflected in the number of Polish websites visited from the UK. It seems that the Google’s third most visited website within the UK is Google.pl and … Read More
A competitive and balanced industry with two search giants fighting it out to deliver better and better services to advertisers and marketers is an appealing prospect. Regrettably, that’s not what a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo is going to deliver. An … Read More
2007 witnessed a significant increase in the domain name market. Volume of sales increased by 60% reaching nearly € 50 million, up from € 30 million. All the numbers and statistics available from SEDO here.
New research from the EIAA highlights that 40% of all European online shoppers have changed their mind about which brand to buy following research on the web. The analysis shows how 80% of European internet users have bought a product … Read More
A recent study from the University of Southern California found that a growing number of users find search results less accurate and reliable. 51% of those interviewed declared they trust Search Engine results, down from 62% in 2006. The study … Read More
Nielsen Online released data on the Italian market for November 2007: 9 million active users from the workplace 23 million users who made at least 1 connection to the Internet during the entire month, increased to 24,5 million users when … Read More
The headline is taken from a slide where Andy Atkins Kruger of WebCertain demonstrates the importance of having local people translating. I moderated a session at SMX Stockholm last week called “Global Search Marketing Tactics” where I had Andy, Sara … Read More
The first European event in the SMX series got off to a great start with good attendance, excellent speaker content and a very good atmosphere. Stockholm, in the SES series, was always a more intimate occasion with a great deal … Read More
13 may be a fatal number, but obviously not at Google. Announcment on the Official Google Blog says that iGoogle has been localized for 13 new languages. Users speaking – Arabic – Bulgarian – Catalian – Croatian – Icelandic – … Read More
Futurezone brings us the news that the online advertising market in Germany is rocketing and expected to exceed €800 million in 2007. That is a 67% over the €480 million seen in 2006. The figures are from the Bundesverbands Informationswirtschaft, … Read More
