Search Engine Mediabureau Checkit presents with RM Interactive the results of the National Search Engine Monitor. A research under 1.297 Dutch people.

Here the date of who knows the Search Engine by name, who uses a particulier Search Engine and which …

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Ask Jeeves has finally launched in Germany with a German version.. Since it’s acquisition by IAC and the commitment of the company to expand multilingually and worldwide - this has been an expected and welcome move.

Multilingual Search announced the …

Google will launch the new version of its search engine using the China “.cn” suffix. A Chinese-language version of Google’s search engine was available at the .com address but because of the Chinese government’s filtering it was often inaccesible …

Yahoo announced yesterday that it is expanding its research facilities in both Europe and Latin America.

Web retrieval expert, Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates - a new hire - will work in the Barcelona office - the first addition in Europe.

Takafumi Horie, founder of Liverdoor - a major Japanese portal - has been jailed along with other members of the executive board following allegations of breaches in the country’s Securities Exchange Law.
The beleaguered company has dropped more than 60% in …

Shakil Khan, well known commentator and "Man on The Ground" in China, reports on the hype surrounding online opportunities in the country.

What I see around me is a lot of "Smoke and Mirrors" activity taking place, and I …

At the 6th Fiber Optics EXPO in Tokyo, Japan, Mr. Tamada of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications gave a speech about “Next generation broadband plan 2010″.

He said, “The next generation broadband plan 2010 aims to grow Japan as a …

MSN Japan began to offer MSN search tool bar for enterprises with the Windows desk top search tool for free.

This desk top search searches more than 200 types of files in e-mails, documents, image files, music files, video files, PDF …

According to news on SEW is Google currently testing a feature which we know from the Dutch Search Engine Zoeken.nl as keyword-clustering. Google offers this new tool as a “quick result”. We have already seem this tool at Google Base …

“Don’t be evil? Don’t trust Google!”

Google was accused by a Korean community site(www.humoruniv.com) of not paying the Korean site for having Google’s AdSense on its Web site for two months. The site was supposed to receive a check of …

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Keynote Systems (Nasdaq “KEYN”), conducted a study of 1,200 internet users in China and Google outperformed its competitors in 11 of 13 factors measured. Chris Sherman, Associate Editor at Search Engine Watch blogs about this study and adds some …

Microsoft’s grand plans to provide free software and services over the internet are predicated on generating ad revenue via adCenter (still in beta) to catch up with Google and Yahoo by offering what they don’t - ads targeted by gender, …

Forget ‘pay per call’, PagesJaunes.fr - the French Yellow Pages organisation’s online division - has just launched a free version for its advertisers. From now on, anyone who advertises online will be able to include a free telephone …

In a busy week of consolidation for Russian search engines, Rambler has purchased 51% of Price Express, a leading e-commerce Internet company and owner of several high profile web sites in RuNet.

Price Express operates the internet portals Price.ru, Domoteka.ru …

Yandex, the Russian mega-portal has signed a partnership deal with Mail.ru, one of the largest sites in the RuNet. Mail.ru provides email and portal services, much like Hotmail.com, and currently has a 5.7% stake in the Russian search market. Google …

The China Search Marketing Tour will visit Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing where the participants will attend the first Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo to be held in China. As you’ve no doubt read here at Multilingual Search, the China …

The Guardian newspaper reports today on a gala event in Shanghai where the rich of China voted on their favourite brands - alongside Ferrari and Armani their favourite search engine brand turns out to be Baidu.

We’ve spoken a lot about …

Microsoft in a bid to keep up with Baidu, Yahoo! China and Google has opened an “adlab” in China. This research lab will focus on improving Microsoft’s pay per click advertising program, adCenter. Microsoft originally tested adCenter in …

The first Google offline content ads appeared in the ‘Sun-Times’, as reported by the Chicago Times on 12 December. They have closed a deal which allows them to fill a column on the right with 15 positions. They even …

A recent article at CMO magazine discusses the subtleties of marketing in China.
The use of guanxi - your “network of influence” or your sphere of friends and acquaintences - is explained as being far more valuable than other Western marketing …

As seen on Threadwatch, Forbes is running an article on the Google taking market share from Yahoo! within international markets.

Citing data culled by comScore, Bear Stearns said Google’s international market share in November rose to 71.3% from 68.9% in …

On December 27, Microsoft, Japan Telecom and Softbank BB announced the development of “Messenger Joint Communication Services” with their strategic partnership.

This service ensures the security by combining the network infrastructure and the services such as VoIP, E-mail, internet access, group …

Jamie Gottlieb over at Adotas.com gives an interesting spin on the rampant growth of online marketing in China.
She suggests the billion dollar investment by Yahoo!, the data center being developed by Google and IPOs like Baidu.com - all suggest …

Since my fellow contributing editors are providing information about regional search engines, I decided to post an article I wrote prior to speaking at Search Engine Strategies “Global Search Landscape” session in Chicago. Our own Andy Atkins-Kruger, Web Certain …

Inspired by Kristjan’s post about Iceland, here is a short run down of the Search Engine Landscape in Denmark

The search market in Denmark has historically, until the worldwide Google dominance, been driven by local directory Jubii (sold to Swedish Spray, …

There are three regional search engines in Iceland

leit.is (Home Made / no www)
finna.is (Home Made /Google for www through XML)
Embla (Home Made / No www)

Then there is Google and Ha.is (the fourth local one, mostly used my the Univeristy of …

In the Netherlands are the top 10 websites of 2005 mostley Search Search and Search:

1. Google
2. Startpagina (Directory)
3. Msn.nl
4. Markplaats (Search too?)
5. Detelefoongids.nl (people search)
6. MSN.com
8. Speuders (Search too?)
10. eBay (Search too?)

Sogou, which means “search dog”, is seeking a spokesdog for their search engine. The winner gets an annual salary of 100,000 yuan which is about $12,000 USD. Considering the average salary in China is about a tenth of …