India has urged social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove offensive material and self-censor user generated content, unleashing a storm of criticism from internet users complaining of censorship in the world’s largest democracy. One of the first … Read More
December 6th saw Google inaugurate its new French offices in Paris, , which will serve as its headquarters, not only for France but for all its Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa operations. As part of the celebration, French President … Read More
Google has announced “New markup for multilingual content” which has sigificant consequences for anyone running websites in more than one language or in more than one country. This includes those with different versions for English for the US and UK … Read More
The Financial Times is reporting today that Dealreporter.com (a subscription service) has details of a 400 page document spelling out accusations from complainants to the EU related to abuse of the search engine’s commercial dominance in Europe. The total list … Read More
Strategically a very significant step was announced in eastern Europe today — Yandex’s video search system is to power Seznam as part of a wider partnership agreement! The video search service is at videa.seznam.cz and has been re-developed specifically for … Read More
The only conference for international marketers is back in London on 24th November – and for anyone working in the global SEO, PPC and social media space, the International Search Summit is one event not to miss. And here are … Read More
SaveurBière.com has been sentenced and fined a 10000euro fine by the Cour d’Appel de Douai, France (court of appeals of Douai) for abusive SEO tactics & techniques. Google did not think those techniques were outside its guidelines… The story 2007, … Read More
For decades it was the media companies that largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy and where. With the mass popularity of the Internet consumers now have the ability to generate, curate and distribute content … Read More
The leading Russian search engine Yandex, announced yesterday that its revenues had grown by 65% in quarter 3 compared with the previous year. With a turnover of 5.2 billion Rubles ($161.9 million Rubles) and a profit of 1.8 billion Rubles, … Read More
International SEO will be a key topic at the upcoming International Search Summit on 24th November, where delegates will be guided through the challenges of marketing to a global audience by international marketing specialists who have been there, done it … Read More
International SEO, Geo-targeting, Global Search Trends, International PPC and Multilingual Video Optimisation are just some of the sessions on offer at the International Search Summit London on November 24th. Targeted at international marketers, the Summit focuses on the topics, issues … Read More
On the 6th December .fr (France) and .re (Reunion) domain names will be available for registration to all European Union citizens. Afnic, the non-profit entity managing the French top level domain names attribution, has until now only allowed companies and … Read More
Today’s Infographics Mondays series looks at Google Adwords costs. Google set another record with its Q3 2011 revenue reaching USD9.72 billion (USD9billion in Q2 2011) representing a 33% increase vs Q3 2010. Around 70% of Google’s revenue is generated by … Read More
As a board member of SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Association and a multilingual internet marketer, I need to weigh in on many things when I consult my clients and one of them is what search engine to choose to … Read More
Video on AdWords or AdWords using images in Gmail, etc… Google has been testing various search engine advertising ad copy formats under the AdWords New Ad Formats Initiative. Now, Google AdWords is set to launch on the world second largest … Read More
