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Spanish is the third top spoken language in the World, yet a recent Accenture study found that the fact is no indication of it´s performance online.
Lets look at the numbers
Internet growth in Latin America and Spain just last year …
More fun domain disputes. If you’ve been following Multilingual Search for some time you may have read a story last year, about internationalizing the Chilean .cl domains.
To summarize, it means that the .cl domains can use “ñ”, “ü” and …
How do you track online lift from an offline campaign, such as a promotional event, coupon campaign, or TV spot? Check out this article by Melissa Campanelli for DMNews : “Careerbuilder.com Uses Web Analytics to Track Online Lift.”
To sum it up, online recruitment and career site Careerbuilder.com used Google Analytics to measure the increase in traffic that resulted from offline promotions
Many of you saw last week’s post on using the AJAX Search API in TypePad and Blogger and have already taken these ideas and enhanced your own blogs. An early adopter of the API known as “CyberCoder” had a cool idea… He envisioned a “Video Bar” that could sit in a narrow side bar vertically, or across the top or bottom of a page horizontally.
Last night we launched a Video Bar solution. This makes a great addition to your blogs and pages and composes nicely with an existing Video Search solution. To show you an example, we added the video bar to our AJAX Search API Playground blog.
Check out more of our solutions and samples:
Google’s vertical markets director, Jeff Levick, highlighted the importance of translation, machine translation in other words, during the “Future of Search” panel debate at London’s AdTech, which I was fortunate enough to moderate.Jeff pointed to the fact that there are …
As of today, Google Reader has a new look — and even more important, a lot of new features that we think you’ll like. We’ve listened to your feedback, done usability research, and examined all the ways that people consume content on the web, from feed readers to email clients. With a clean interface and some JavaScript wizardry, we think we’ve built an application that accommodates a wide range of reading styles while being fun and easy to use
We are excited to tell you about two changes to GWT today based on your feedback in the GWT developer forum. First, we’ve transitioned to using a real issue tracking system on Google Code so that you can report issues and workarounds directly to our issues database rather than just talking about them in the forum. This has been one of the most requested features in the forum, and we hope it will help make our development process more transp
The conference was full of motivated people and interestingly enough more and more people have tried search. In fact in a survey conducted during the conference the attendants were asked what type of webmarketing activities they are currently working with. …
The race is on to see which engine will deliver a contextual advertising program for ordinary webmasters in Russia to rival Google.
Well it was only this Tuesday when I wrote that, and it seems that race has started in ernest …
Today is Google’s 8th birthday. So… Happy birthday.
According to Matt Cutts, the 5 candles actually form the Roman Numerals for 8 VIII. Pretty nifty.
By Clint Guerrero, Google Base Support About one month ago, we released the Google Base data API. Since then, a number of developers have been hard at work creating applications that integrate with Google Base. We’re aware of some of these integrations, but would like to know about all of them
Rambler, the No.2 search engine in Russia with a 20% share in the market, have released their financial statement for the 1st half of 2006 [LSE: RMG]
Report Highlights:
Total revenue up nearly 100% period on period to US$ 16 million (US$ …
Posted by Jeff Novak, Senior Online Marketing Manager, Odimo, Inc.As an early partner in Google Checkout, we at Odimo anticipated an increase in traffic and sales to both of our sites, www.WorldofWatches.com and www.Ashford.com. The results thus far have been impressive: the Checkout badge on search results has definitely increased our clickthrough rates and driven sales.The ease of use and the confidence of the security of Google Checkout has enhanced our ability to meet the online shopping needs of our new and existing customers
Internet World, the magazine about webmarketing, has a conference in Stockholm this week. Search is one of the major topics and about 250 people have registered to attend the conference. It will take place tomorrow, tuesday 26th and wednesday …
Relevant traffic is a big player in Sweden with a focus on selling clicks from the search engine listings.
Kinnevik , a big investement company has bought 36% of the stocks for 28 million Swedish kronors and is hoping to …
Internet.com and goo research have announced its blog user survey results. It shows the difference in usage between male and female.
Q1: Have you viewed someone else’s blog in last 30 days?
Male - Yes 77.75%
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Madar Research has released figures which show that the number of internet users in the Arab world exceeds 26.3 million with an increased growth rate in 2005 of 18% giving a 9 million increase. Penetration of access is …
Baidu, China’s leading search engine, is defending itself in court from charges of click fraud by online advertisters in China. Analysys International, an IT research firm, conducted a survey of 2,000 online advertisers in China and found that …
Analyst Robert Peck of Bear Sterns described in a report for clients, a new feature that Google will be rolling out in time for the holiday season. The new product is based off of Google Base, a service Google launched last October that many believed was taking a direct shot at eBay.
Google also plans to de-emphasize Froogle as a stand-alone product, and integrate it into other search products
Apple and Google are currently rumoured to be working on any number of deals that could greatly benefit both companies. The thing is though, no one is quite sure what the two have up their sleeves.
So far, it is rumoured that Apple and Google are working on an advertising deal. It would likely be a traditional advertising partership much like Google has struck with other high profile online companies
Many of you have already integrated the Google AJAX Search API into your blogs. Yesterday, I built some sample integrations on both TypePad and on Blogger. I went a little overboard, but I did this to demonstrate a few ideas that you might want to clone into your own blogs.
Take a look at both our TypePad based sample and our Blogger based sample.
Both samples offer the following features:
Google Search Form in the sidebar with tabbed search results displayed in the center column
In honor of Fashion Week, this Saturday, AdSense will be workin’ it out. No, not on the runway — we’ll be doing regular system maintenance from 10am-2pm PST. Even AdSense needs its beauty rest! ;)You won’t be able to access your account during this time, but don’t worry, dahling - we’ll keep serving those fabulous ads and recording all those stunning impressions they make on your visitors.
Posted by Jason Chen, Support EngineerOn Monday, September 25th, from about 5-7:00 PM PDT, the Google Checkout sandbox environment will be down for maintenance. This only applies to the test sandbox environment that you should be using to develop and test integration. The live production Google Checkout environment will continue uninterrupted.
Posted by Samantha Crow, Product Marketing ManagerThe Google Desktop Gadget Contest ended a few weeks ago, but if you’re a college or university student in the U.S., we’ve got a new challenge for you. How do you feel about writing a gadget that (could) get you a date, is really smart or pretty, or that your friends just can’t get enough of? We just launched the Google Gadget Awards, which challenges U.S
We’re usually a modest bunch, but we we couldn’t help but let you know about some honors and awards bestowed on Googlers recently: Ramakrishnan Srikant is the winner of the 2006 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award for his work on pruning techniques for the discovery of association rules, and for developing new data mining approaches that respect the privacy of people in the data base. Henry Rowley and Shumeet Baluja, along with CMU professor Takeo Kanade
Posted by Jeff Ragusa, Google EnterpriseWe’re always excited when a developer, customer, or partner takes such great interest in our products and in our community that they spend the time and effort to contribute their own improvements. I’ve recently had the pleasure of working with software engineer and web standards aficionado Joe D’Andrea who has made it his personal mission to take our Google Search Appliance into the wonderful world of web standards compliance
Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine, has reduced the minimum cost per click from $0.10c to 0.01c (30 kopecks) in their contextual advertising program. This should allow users to start using Yandex more effectively for the PPC long tail, as they …
This week we bring you two key improvements to AdSense that came about directly from publisher feedback.First off, you’ll be happy to hear that we’ve completely revamped the Channels page under your AdSense Setup tab. Besides cleaning up the design by housing each product on its own sub-tab, we’ve also made it easier for you to take action on your channels. Just select the checkbox next to a channel and then choose to activate, deactivate, remove
Reuters reports that AOL France is selling its internet access business to Neuf Cegetel for $365 million as it overhauls it’s online business in Europe.
The important point about the report is that AOL has simultaneously boosted its war chest by …
Emarketer reports Ecommerce trends for the next few years, associating robust growth in online sales to the increase of DSL lines installed both at home and at work.
The report identifies the UK as the most “mature” of all …
China Telecom Corp. Ltd., the largest Internet service provider in China, has partnered with the Microsoft to use Microsoft’s Windows Live Technology to power China Telecom’s 114 Web search network. According to media reports Microsoft will make its …
The Boston Consulting Group has released a report showing that the personal financial wealth of Russians will grow faster than anywhere else on the planet, save India.
Buoyed by a flood of cash from oil and gas exports, the value …
Posted by Kevin Gough, Enterprise Product Marketing ManagerWell according to Ken Yarmosh, author of the TECHNOSIGHT blog, Google product manager Rajen Sheth was “on fire” during his keynote at today’s The New New Internet conference. Rajen spoke about Google’s approach to developing web-based enterprise software and our new Google Apps for Your Domain offering. Upon hearing Ken’s proclamation, Rajen responded, “I’m fired?” No Rajen, quite the opposite. Read Ken’s synopsis of Rajen’s talk and view a few video clips from it.
It seems Rupert Murdoch - owner of Fox Media and MySpace - plans on launching a Chinese version of MySpace. If it is half as popular there then I think we will se MySpace as the number one visitied site …
NYT: A court ordered Google to remove on Monday all links to French- and German-language newspaper reports published in Belgium after an association of local publishers won a case that accused the company of violating the country’s copyright laws.
The legal …
by Ellen Beldner, User Experience DesignerAs part of our ongoing effort to make Google Base easier to use, we launched a redesign of the Base homepage today. This doesn’t change any functionality, but will make Base easier to understand. In our usability studies, we noticed that providers new to bulk uploading would often see the link “Post an item” and click it immediately
As mentioned in the developer forum, we recently rolled out a new user interface for the search form that’s an integral part of the basic search control. Part of this change is better support for decoupling the search form from the result set and building custom search forms when you are coding to the raw GSearch() layer. The system now supports two new modes of operation which are covered in our online documentation:
When you have a chance, please take a look at these new features, and if applicable, please migrate your applications to this new model.
On a separate topic, we’ve also added some documentation for the Map Search solution. It now includes step-by-step instructions for how to add it to your page and configure it. This has become a popular solution and we wanted to ensure that more people could easily take advantage of it.
A few weeks ago, we told you that publishers can display AdSense for search results within their own sites. Now AdSense Product Manager Shirin Oskooi explains the benefits and provides a short demonstration in this video. Interested in implementing search results within your own site? Just visit our Help Center for instructions.
Pretty interesting write up about how Google might be aiming for the silverscreen.
Posted by Nitin Mangtani, Search Product ManagerAs a product manager it’s always fun to work on cool, interesting technology and then release it to customers. Today we shipped an all-new version of the Google Search Appliance with increased document capacity and some great new features. With this new release, the GB-5005 can now search up to 10 million documents while the GB-8008 can search a whopping 30 million
By Mark Heynen, Strategic Partner DevelopmentWe all know that real estate can be voyeuristic. Folks go to open houses for fun, people look up each other’s home valuations out of sheer curiousity. And obviously they look up listings online for fun as well. However, to maintain a robust sales pipeline, many brokers I speak to are finding that it’s important for home sellers to reach out to buyers at all stages in the process, even the “voyeurs” who are 1 to 2 years away from buying
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