Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Hotpot Places A Bet On Las Vegas Google’s on-the-streets promotional blitz for its Hotpot ratings and recommendations service has landed a new home: Las Vegas. The company has just announced […]
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Hot At Sphinn: Google’s BBB Grade, Google’s Keyword Research Tool, Social Media Professionalism & More Google dominated the discussion on Sphinn this past week. Stories about Google’s “C-” rating from the […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: TweetUp Scores Its Own Search Column In TweetDeck TweetUp, the new AdWords-like ad platform for Twitter has added a prime, new publishing partner: the popular Twitter client, TweetDeck. In an email […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google AdWords Expands Product Ads Google announced they are expanding the product ads within the AdWords listing that they have been testing for a while. Google said, in the U.S., searchers […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Targets Spammers With New Local Business Listing Guidelines Google has tweaked its guidelines for local businesses that use the Google Maps Local Business Center. The new guidelines are listed on […]
TechCrunch reports Turkey is claiming Google owes them 71 million Turkish Lira or 47 million US dollars in back taxes. In fact, the Turkish government is fining Google for the money. Google claims all the funds are through their Ireland branch and Google does not owe Turkey any taxes. Google technically has a company in […]
This morning Yahoo announced that it was acquiring Maktoob.com, “the leading online community in the Arab world.” According to Yahoo the site has an audience of 16.5 million people. The purchase price has been estimated at between $75 and $100 million and was apparently in the works before the search deal with Microsoft was announced last month. […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
As part of its continuing international rollout, AOL-owned video search engine Truveo has launched in Australia, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, and Turkey. The site has experienced dramatic growth since its relaunch in August as a consumer destination. According to the press release, 70 percent of Truveo traffic now comes from outside the US […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
After relaunching this August as a video search engine and consumer destination, AOL’s Truveo is aggressively expanding on a global basis. By the end of the year, Truveo intends to be in 15 countries, including Russia and Turkey. Starting today it will be available outside the U.S. in France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Taiwan, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are all doing business in China. There’s been bad PR and even congressional hearings for Yahoo about its cooperation with the Chinese government in the country’s effort to censor the Internet and crack down on dissent. Turkey and Thailand have blocked YouTube, and so on. Now this article from Forbes describes […]
Sex, Nazi, burrito and Viagra: Who Googles what? from Reuters reports on keywords released by Google by country. Reuters ordered the list by country that is most likely to search on certain words. Here is a brief rundown:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
With Thailand and Turkey both yet again seeking to block YouTube, we thought it would be useful to recap the growing list of countries that have objected to content on the service. We’re focusing on national governments that have taken action to block content on YouTube from being accessible countrywide.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
First Brazil blocked YouTube over a celebrity sex video. Then Turkey blocked YouTube over a video said to be insulting to country founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Now it’s Thailand’s turn. YouTube is now blocked in Thailand after the service apparently failed to remove a video clip deemed insulting to the country’s king.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Turkish Court Orders YouTube Blocked at Forbes.com reports a court order has been submitted to block YouTube in Turkey. The reason was because a video was found insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. The head of Turk Telekom said they have begun enforcing the ban immediately. Philipp Lenssen has a screen capture […]