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<title>Baidu's Robin Li to keynote at ad:tech Shanghai</title>
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<description>Robin Li, CEO of the world's leading Chinese search engine Baidu, will be the keynote speaker at ad:tech. ad:tech, a global interactive marketing event, will be held in Shanghai, Novermber 25 - 26, 2008 at the Shanghai International Convention and Exhibition Center. Day 2 keynote speakers will be Harry Hui, Chief Marketing Officer of PepsiCo International, China Beverages and S Y Lau, EVP online media, Tencent. &quot;In 2008,</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:33:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Japanese domain &quot;.&#230;&#151;&#165;&#230;&#156;&#172;&quot; will be available in 2009</title>
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<description>Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced its plan to introduce Japanese Kanji character domain &quot;.&#230;&#151;&#165;&#230;&#156;&#172;&quot; or &quot;.&#230;&#151;&#165;&#230;&#156;&#172;&#229;&#155;&#189;&quot; as early as Summer 2009. Currently, Japanese characters can be used as &quot;&#233;&#131;&#181;&#228;&#190;&#191;&#229;&#177;&#128;.jp&quot;. There are about 1 million &quot;.jp&quot; domains registered and about 140,000 of them use Japanese characters.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:01:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Analytics now in Portuguese</title>
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<description>Google Analytics is now available in Portuguese. Google Analytics is a widely used web analytics tool, provided for free by Google and already used by many webmasters in Portugal. In October, Google had already announced that Google Sites - a tool for creating free sites online - was also available in the Portuguese language.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:30:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>B2B search engine Accoona acquired by Masterseek</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12953</link>
<description>Accoona, a b2b search engine, was recently acquired by the Masterseek, a B2B search engine &quot;Masterseek is a virtual showroom to search out business information about others and to guide and update the information available on your own company.&quot; Accoona launched in 2004 with great fanfare including having former US President Bill Clinton speak at its opening. Accoona claims to list 49.728.000 company profiles on the search engine.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:58:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>40% of Japanese online visited Music site</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12818</link>
<description>comScore, Inc. released a study of music related sites in Japan. It shows that nearly 40% of the Japanese online population visited an entertainment music site such as iTunes in the month of August in 2008. The study also revealed that Japan recorded the highest penetration of users of Apple iTunes software during the month, when compared with US, UK, France and Germany. 25% of Japanese Internet users accessed iTunes in August. Yahoo! Music led the category with 7.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:26:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Baidu launches C2C marketplace &quot;Youa&quot;</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12572</link>
<description>Baidu, the world's leading Chinese search engine, officially launched their consumer to consumer e-commerce platform &quot;Youa&quot;. Baidu has their own branded online payment system called BaiFuBao, to make purchases on Youa. Youa was previously available to 10,000 pre-approved sellers and 50,000 participants in closed beta testing. Youa will compete with current C2C marketplace leader Alibaba's Taobao.com which owns 57% of the marketshare.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:36:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top Japan Web Site Rankings for August 2008</title>
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<description>comScore just released its August 2008 rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in Japan, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. During a month of August, travel sites had much growth as many planned trips for vacation season. The 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China triggered gains at sports sites, while strong storms in August prompted increases at weather sites.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:37:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Acquires Korean Blogging Platform TNC</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10907</link>
<description>Is Google finally becoming serious in approaching the Korean market? Joop Dorresteijn reports that blogging platform TNC has been acquired by Google today; making them the first acquired company by Google in Korea. (who's counting anyway) TNC offers a blogging platform similar to Automatic, the application behind WordPress.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:56:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>African Ad Network Pamoja Launched</title>
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<description>According to The White African Blog , a new Ad network has been launched called Pamoja Media . Started by Joshua Wanyama (of AfricanPath ) and Benin Mwangi (of Cheetah Index ), it's an ad network created to serve advertisers trying looking for a one-stop-shop for publishers in Africa, or that reach Africans in the diaspora. Publisher requirements are quite high. Among other factors sites must have an Alexa ranking of 250,000 or better and a minimum of 200,</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:26:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Googe top in India - Rediff largest local indian search engine</title>
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<description>Comscore has released figures showing that Google received a billion searches in June placing it number one with an 81% share. The largest local search engine was Rediff.com with a 1.5% share. India is a massive potential and growing market with 23 official languages but where English is the only lingua franca. Google Adwords is available in several - but by means all indian languages. via Searchengineland Google in India ,</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:11:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>First International Online travel business Congress in Sharm El Sheikh-Egypt 15-19/12/08</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:51:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Current State of Internet Penetration in Africa</title>
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<description>Appfrica, web portal offering news related to African innovation, education and entrepreneurship in technology, published information and statistics on the current state of Internet penetration in Africa .   Broadband Access Africa , Information Technology Statistics Africa ,</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:22:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SMX Brasil 2008: a good start</title>
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<description>There are always room for improvements, but my overall impression of SMX S&#227;o Paulo 2008 was positive. In order to avoid duplicated content I'm linking to Sara Holoubek's post at DM News. brazil , event , sem conference ,</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:56:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Using Mobile Phones as a Cultural Lens</title>
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<description>The Complexity and Social Networks Blog presents an interesting paper on mobile phone users and data stored in service provider databases around the world, discussing the di&#239;&#172;&#128;erent types of data captured and how it can be used to provide insight into human cultures. Examples are provided from a variety of cultures and hundreds of millions of individuals, illustrating how phones can be used as a cultural lens, improving understanding of a particular cultures pace of life,</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:17:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Portugal buys 500 thousand Intel Classmates</title>
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<description>Intel signed a deal with the Portuguese government in which they will provide experience and know how in the education market in order to put 500 thousand small PCs in the hands of children with ages raging from 6 to 10 years old. The computers, named &quot;Magalh&#227;es&quot; in honour of the Portuguese explorer , will cost between zero &#226;&#130;&#172; (for underprivileged kids) up to 50&#226;&#130;&#172;. When they come out of the factory (which by the way is in Portugal),</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:46:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Online profits to reach 33,7 billion online in Europe</title>
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<description>According to the The European Information Technology Observatory (EITO): Revenues from Internet access growing by more than 10 percent Telephone flat rates and online video sales are stimulating business Germany is the largest single market in the EU with a 25 percent share The increase in revenue (+10,7% in 2008) is attributed to the falling prices of high speed DSL connections.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:36:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Overture Japan's new face and new services</title>
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<description>On July 4th, Overture Japan launched its updated website with both Overture and Yahoo logos. URL is also changed from &quot;overture.co.jp&quot; to &quot;ov.yahoo.co.jp&quot;. Last week, they announced the changes with minimum bidding cost, which is currently 9yen (35yen for some categories). Starting in August, the minimum bidding cost will be adjusted according to the importance &amp; the value of keywords and the quality of keywords &amp; the ads.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:54:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Italians dislike online publicity</title>
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<description>According to a recent study by the University of Udine and Gorizia, 80% of internet users find online ads an obstacle to their navigation, reducing ease of use of the web. The results presented in the study are based on a survey conducted in the north east of Italy: 69% of those interviewed find publicity a violation of their privacy 39,8% find it &quot;invasive&quot; Source: ANSA Italy , statistics , web internet marketing ,</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:58:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Begun - Russian contextual ad system - falls to Google for $140m</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8848</link>
<description>A fascinating acquisition has taken place in Russia where Google, which has not traditionally performed well in the Russian search engine market, has paid one of its competitors $50 million for their share of the Begun contextual advertising system. The total acquisition value of Begun was $140 million - but a signficant slice of that will be paid to Rambler's partner in Begun - Bannatyne Ltd. Meanwhile, Rambler, the original control owner of Begun,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:55:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>International growth saves Google as US flatlines</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8826</link>
<description>Yesterday, Google announced its second quarter figures showing that international revenues represented all revenue growth for the last 9 months with the US virtually flatlining. Growth in revenue compared to last year was 39% and 3% compared with the first quarter of the year giving a total quarter turnover of $5.3 billion. Clicks decreased by 1% over the first quarter of the year but were still 19% up year on year.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:33:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China (.cn) is now the world's most popular country code</title>
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<description>For a number of years, Germany (.de) was the world's most popular ccTLD in terms of registrations. But about two years ago China made its ccTLD a lot more affordable and easier to get. Since then, the country has been registering roughly 20,000 country codes a day. The country went from 2 million registrations to 10 million registrations in an amazing 12 months. Within the past two months, China overtook Germany for the top spot, with approximately 11.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:45:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google to digitise 500,000 books in the 'Biblioth&#232;que Municipale de Lyon'</title>
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<description>Abondance brings us further news of the Google book publishing initiative which sees Lyon , France's second most important city (sorry Marseilles), jumping the gun on Paris and cooperating with Google. The digitisation will involve those books which are out of copyright. The library houses an important collection of books in the French language and some rare editions from authors such as Nostradamus and Newton.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:09:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>TLD .it reaches 1,5 million, now 5th in Europe and 7th worldwide</title>
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<description>The Top Level Domain extension .it - geographical extension that identifies Italy - has reached the 1,5 million activations, ranking 5 th in Europe and 7 th worldwide. Significant changes in the registration process are foreseen later this year, introducing a so-called syncro system which delegates authority of domain name activation to 3 rd parties.Source: NIC .it , domain names italy , TLD ,</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:36:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ericcson and 3 Italy Launch HSPA+ Technology</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8765</link>
<description>Ericsson and 3 Italy announced the successful conclusion of the first ever high speed mobile internet connection with HSPA+ technology ( H igh S peed P acket A ccess) reaching 5.8 Mbps transfer rate.Source: ANSA HSPA , HSPA+ ,</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:01:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Indian language tools search plugins released</title>
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<description>India is unusual in having 23 official languages from English and Hindi to Kannada and Telugu - now the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has released 'cross language search plugins' which are intended to make search more readily available to the wider spectrum of Indian languages, reports India Times . This, together with the wide availability of access, is essential to enable India to take it's rightful place as a major economy in the modern world.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:15:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Statistics on Internet Access in Italy by AUDIWEB</title>
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<description>Audiweb, powered by nielsen, has published panel data gathered in the month of May. 24 million users went online at least once during the month of may, 2008, a 5% increase compared to April The number of users increases to 25,6 million if instant messaging and software to download music or films are included The average Italian user went online 30 times and was connected for an average of 21,5 hours (30 minutes more than previous month) totalizing 1.650 page views 19,</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:43:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SMX arrives in Brazil next month</title>
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<description>SMX franchise will have its first edition in Brazil on August 7th and 8th. Among the key speakers are Bill Hunt, Director of Global Search Strategy at Neo@Ogilvy; Erica Schimdt, Global Search Director at ISOBAR, and Sara Houlobek, Consultant, DMNews Columnist &amp; SEMPO Board of Directors.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:35:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Over 90% of the Icelandic nation uses the Internet</title>
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<description>Statistics Iceland has published the results of its seventh survey on the use of ICT and the Internet by Icelandic households and individuals. The survey was conducted earlier this year and shows how the vast majority of Icelandic households have one or more computers and access to the Internet. In 2008, 92% of the households had a computer and 88% of the households had access to the Internet. xDSL Internet connection are the most common type of Internet connections,</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:56:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Visa Predicts E-commerce in Latin America to surpass $16 billion this year</title>
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<description>According to a new study by Visa Inc. &quot;B2C Electronic Commerce in Latin America and the Caribbean: Beating All Odds.&quot;, retail e-commerce in Latin America, including travel and tourism, rose to nearly $11 billion in 2007, up from about $5 billion in 2005 and $7.78 billion in 2006, and is expected to surpass $16 billion this year and reach nearly $30 billion by 2010. Sales figures for leading Latin American markets, with sales in millions of dollars for 2007,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:06:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Yahoo Japan for iPhone</title>
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<description>iPhone goes on sale on July 11 in Japan, and I heard that there was a short line (not long at all compared to the line forming in front of the Apple shop in New York city) forming in front of the store in Tokyo. As you may know, Softbank won the contract for iPhone in Japan, which means that Yahoo Japan (owned by Softbank) becomes it's official web portal and the search engine. Here , you can see new Yahoo Japan for iPhone. You can click each icon to see the service screen.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:41:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>GettyImages and Flickr Announce Partnership in Italy</title>
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<description>Getty Images and Flickr announced a partnership combining (Flickr) creativity and (Getty Images) digital media licensing. In a move to increase reach and enrich offer, Getty Images and Flickr have agreed to a partnership and created the Flickr Collection, images and photos selected by the Getty Images Editors. Flickr members will benefit from the Getty Images distribution and sales capabilities.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:08:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Search Engine Marketing Journal to Launch at Search Engine Strategies San Jose</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8436</link>
<description>Search Engine Marketing Journal is a new printed publication dedicated to the advancement of search marketing through peer reviewed articles. The goal of the journal is to help professionals in the industry share their expertise, encouraging the submission of articles and research papers by experts in the industry. Similar to a scientific journal, articles submitted are reviewed by editors prior to publication. SEMJ.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo pushes out the boat in Vietnam and upsets the locals</title>
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<description>According to Vietnamnet , Yahoo is pushing the boat out in terms of new product launches in Vietnam - a market of around 20 million internet users with a largely young profile. Only in April this year, Yahoo appointed Vu Minh Tri as the General Director of Yahoo Vietnam. Vietnam is a particularly interesting market for Yahoo.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:20:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nokia internet platform Ovi to reach Norway, Sweden, Denmark &amp; Hungary</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8291</link>
<description>Nokia of Finland, which just happens to be the world's largest mobile phone maker, has partnered with leading Norwegian telecoms company - Telenor - to provide access to various internet services through Nokia's own internet service Ovi, reports Reuters . The Telenor and Ovi services will be offered to customers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Hungary. Why does this matter in search?</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:44:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Liberalization of the .pt TLD delayed again</title>
<link>http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8144</link>
<description>The decision to allow anyone to register a .pt TLD has suffered yet another blow, as the authorization from the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology was l postponed to an unknown future date. 6 months ago the request to liberalize the .pt TLD was proposed by the Foundation for National Scientific Computing ( FCCN ) in order to stimulate the market. Only about 116 thousand .pt domains exist. This number is considered very low,</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:38:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China Mobile - a bigger internet player than Google globally - discuss?</title>
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<description>The largest company in the WebCertain 'internet companies extract' of the FT Global 500 is Hong Kong's China Mobile with a staggering market value of $298 billion, beating Google into a cocked hat in 12th place at a 'tiny' $104 billion and after such companies as Microsoft, AT&amp;T, IBM, Vodafone, Cisco, Intel and Apple.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:33:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Baidu found guilty in advertising legal battle</title>
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<description>The largest Chinese search engine, Baidu, was found guilty of &quot;a breach of reasonable standard of care&quot; by the Shanghai No.2 Intermediate People's Court. The case involved a transportation company, Dazhong Banchang, whose company name was used in advertisements from another company. Baidu argued that it is only the advertiser and since it did not create the ad it cannot be held responsible for the content on the website.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:27:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Predicts Russian Operation Worth $1Bn</title>
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<description>Both WebProNews and Bloomburg are reporting on the comments made by Vladimir Dolgov, Head of Google Russia, that online ad sales will jump fivefold in Russia to reach $1 billion in 2010. In 2010, Google believes its operations in Russia could be tapping a billion dollar Internet advertising market. 2007 saw Russia grow to a $200 million bonanza in online ads. Two years from now may make that a fleeting, unprofitable memory.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:52:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Facebook faces Chinese market with Chinese interface</title>
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<description>A fascinating experiment in internet culture has been launched by Facebook who have localised their interface to the Chinese markets. As the Chinese markets are very concerned about 'face' - how will they cope with a 'face' book that means that even people you don't know are described as friends. This means that Facebook is available in Catalan, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish,</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:15:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Asia-Pacific Search Rankings for April 2008</title>
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<description>comScore just released an interesting data about the search rankings in Asia-Pacific region. According to their data, Google and Yahoo were the regional leaders as &quot;top search properties&quot; followed by China's Baidu. &quot;Because Google and Yahoo! have a strong presence in many Asia-Pacific countries, they account for the majority of searches conducted in the overall region,&quot; said Jack Flanagan, comScore executive vice president. &quot;However, there are several strong,</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:16:27 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Rumours of CEO Change Denied By Russian Yandex</title>
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<description>Techcrunch reports of Ex-Yahoo SVP and General Manager of Search Vish Makhijani becoming Yandex CEO have been denied by the company in a press release today. Vish Makhijani has indeed joined Yandex but in the position of President and CEO of their new US technology and business development facility, &quot;Yandex Labs&quot; based in Silicone Valley, US. Arkady Volozh, a popular figure in the Russian new media scene will continue in his post as head of the company.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:06:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Russian President Calls for Cyrillic Domain Extension</title>
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<description>Russian President Dmitry Medvedev joined calls for the country to be assigned an Internet domain name in the Cyrillic script, reports the Moscow Times on Wednesday as part of a Kremlin drive to promote Russian as a global language. He said 300 million people worldwide used Russian media and that a Cyrillic domain name would be a key part of raising the importance of the language, a task he said was his personal priority as president.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:03:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Internet: a major player in Japanese's purchasing decision making</title>
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<description>The latest report on information gathering in Japan shows that Internet plays a big part in people's information gathering and decision making process. 95% of 500 survey participants said that they use Internet to gather information prior to purchasing products and services. 89.6% of them use &quot;search engines&quot; and 59% of them use &quot;products/services comparison sites&quot;.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:41:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Turkmenistan Joins the Internet Revolution</title>
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<description>The Moscow Times reports that Turkmenistan has begun to allow private citizens to connect to the internet. The national internet provider, Turkmentelekom, said on Thursday that it has been connecting up to 20 homes a day since the announcement, mainly in the capital city of Ashgabat. It has a waiting list of 2000 people. Previously internet access was restricted to government employees, diplomatic posts and offices of major international companies.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:34:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Aegis Takes No.1 Position in Russia With Adwatch Buyout</title>
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<description>Aegis Group plc has bought AdWatch in Russia to make the UK media buyer's digital marketing unit Isobar the country's number one in online media. Moscow headquartered AdWatch, founded in 2000, has gross assets of &#226;&#130;&#172;9.5m and works for clients such as Microsoft, VTB Bank, SUN Interbrew, Canon and Rolf. Russia is seeing major growth in advertising expenditure, with spending across all media is predicted to increase by 20% in both 2008 and 2009,</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:08:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Russian Yandex Moves Closer to IPO</title>
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<description>The Moscow Times reports that Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia, plans to raise $1.5b to $2b in a New York IPO this fall. Their source has said that these expectations are based on a preliminary valuation of Yandex at $5 billion. Meanwhile Google is looking to improve their performance in Russia, Google co-founder Sergei Brin said in an interview in Moscow last week. &quot;Yandex received about twice as many searches in Russia per day than Google&quot;, Brin said,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 16:02:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Post Collection on South Korean Internet</title>
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<description>Joop Dorresteijn has started a series of posts which aim to explore the South Korean internet market. The series is not complete yet but one to bookmark if you're looking for information on one of the most active internet markets globally.</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 07:57:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>State of the Mobile Web: First Quarter, 2008</title>
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<description>Opera Software, maker of the Opera browser, has recently released the first quarter study related to internet usage in relation with mobile phones using the Opera mini browser . Information contained in the report is based on aggregated data from Opera Mini servers, and related to top 10 countries with the highest number of installation. Read more: the Opera Mobile Report 1st quater 2008 mobile internet connections ,</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 17:40:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>International Blogging and Multilingual Aspects</title>
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<description>Finally my presentation ' I gave an overview on how to establish a multilingual international presence with a blog. I, like Multi-Lingual Search, use WordPress and based my presentation on that platform. There is a paper I wrote with tips and information on multilingual blogging - you can download copy of the PDF here . international bloggong ,</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 16:22:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Link building</title>
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<description>Dixon Jones - Receptional Getting indexed is the easy bit - problems arise when you start building brand - 3 elements are central to your placement query site links Now that links are imperative problems arise on how to interpret them. Social media amongst users of the same demographics will have an impact on your performance. YAHOO! answers works quite well (also ranks on Google) - generates and maintains the trust chain that is changing. You'll get an informed response.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 15:49:12 GMT</pubDate>
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