Well, I was off this past week, so it’s time to catch up on the news and bring you some of the highlights that happened with the search engines at home and abroad:

Google linking to free music in China. Everyone knows that Baidu is China’s biggest search engine, with about 60% of the market; Google [...]

I’ve been writing a lot about off-site techniques and news lately, so I thought it’d be best to return to on-page factors that can affect your website’s visibility in the search engines. One of the most important is content. I recently wrote about this for the Ecreativeworks newsletter, but it’s worthwhile covering here [...]

Microsoft announced yesterday at MIX09 their own translation widget, Microsoft Translator.  Both a widget you can put on pages and an API to integrate translation into applications (and more) are available.  Currently both are being tested on an invite only basis, but you may be able to register for an invite code to be sent [...]

It’s been a little while since I wrote about some of the latest news in international Internet marketing.  Emarketer has released some great information this week about the expected growth of ecommerce in France; the growth of mobile Internet in the UK; and the Japanese perception of search advertising.  There’s also some new insight from [...]

Last week the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a visit to her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.  In an effort to inject a bit of humor and improve relations between the US and Russia, somebody came up with a great idea to present a symbolic button – signifying the new era in US / [...]