Motoko Hunt has won the Inaugural President’s Award from the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO). Motoko has been a consistent and hardworking contributor to Multilingual-Search with great insights on the Japanese search market. We cannot think of anyone more … Read More
Baidu.com, China’s leading search engine company, has been accused of being a monopoly by the Tangshan Renren Information Service Company (TRISC) who is demanding more than 1.1 million renminbi (USD $160,000) in compensation. The suit was opened at the Beijing … Read More
China Knowledge reports that Baidu Chief Executive, Robin Li, revealed at the Boao Forum for Asia that Baidu is launching a new advertising programme AND a 3G solution for this year – but has no plans to expand outside of … Read More
Google’s has reported turnover for the first quarter of 2009 at 3% down on the previous quarter globally – but international revenues actually grew by 0.49% from $2,850 billion to $2,864 billion disguising a significant 7.23% fall in US turnover. … Read More
Social Networking site Plaxo is expanding its global network of sites by using the technique member sourcing’ to produce its localisations. The nature of social networking applications and features renders traditional translation ineffective as many of the terms do not … Read More
Three years ago I attended the Jeeves retirement party in New York when IAC showed the famous ‘Jeeves’ butler frozen in ice – the implication was always that Jeeves would one day be back. And back he certainly is in … Read More
The newly named AT Internet Institute, formerly XiTiMonitor, has published its survey of French search engine activity for March putting Google just under 90% – this is despite a change in their methodology which now measures search engine traffic in … Read More
According to Comscore Facebook took first place in Spain for the first time in February. Comscore’s statistics also put Facebook in 6th place of most popular web properties worldwide with 275 million visitors in February. This works out at a … Read More
ORF.at reports that Ebay has acquired 67% of South Korean competitor Gmarket for $1.2 billion and becomes the market leader in South Korea. Ebay has already bought 67% of shares listed on the New York NASDAQ. Large beneficiaries of the … Read More
SMX will be held in London for the third time, the conference is lead by Chris Sherman and is a two day event taking place on the 18th and the 19th of May this year. Among speakers are several Multilingual … Read More
Internet usage in Sweden droped sharply after new file sharing laws. This legislation makes it possible to order any Swedish Internet operator to provide details identifying suspected copyright infringers. The effects of the new laws were almost instant. The day … Read More
According to a survey done by Statistics Iceland for the year 2008, Reykjavik has nearly 100% penetration of fast connection that is (ADSL or other types of xDSL connections), this changes very little when comes to region outside, goes down … Read More
Baidu.com, the world’s leading Chinese search, launched a specially designed search engine for seniors. The search engine which is more like a portal is named named “Baidu Elderly Search” in Chinese. The design helps older users by emphasizing clicking on … Read More
Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released the latest Internet population data in Japan. According to the report, there were more than 90.9 million Internet users in Japan as of January 2009, which is 2.8 million more than the … Read More
According to comScore Japan’s access ranking report on entertainment sites for February 2009, 45.7 million Japanese visited entertainment sites during the month of February, which is about 74% of Internet users in Japan. (The data includes the accesses from PC … Read More
