Here’s a subject you can be sure we’ll be watching as more information develops.
From CNN
“Google said Tuesday the company and at least 20 others were victims of a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” originating in China in mid-December, evidently to gain access to the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
“Based on our investigation to [...]

For those who follow SEO practices in Russia, Google does not premeditate the actions to take in search engine optimization. Yandex is king and stays at the top with nearly 20% more users than Google.

Yandex – 54.4% of users
Google – 34.5% of users
Mail.ru – 7.4% of users
Rambler – 1.9% of users
Bing – 0.4% of users

In [...]

Wow! Everything has been so busy lately.  Here’s a roundup of what’s going in in international SEO, search, and social media.

China has blocked YouTube, Twitter, Bing, Flickr, and a host of other social and email sites (especially those from Microsoft).  The block occurred in the countown to the Tiannamen Square anniversary, but is likely to [...]

There’s a new search engine out today. Instead of adding it to your bookmarked list of search engines, you can simply replace one of them: Live is now Bing. Microsoft is still trying to gain more of the search market, and has opted to rebrand its search engine as Bing.
As of today (June 1) you [...]

As always, there is a lot going on in search and SEO around the world.  Here are some of the highlights from the past week:

Baidu continues to beat forecasts. Chinese search engine Baidu keeps on growing, this time posting a first-quarter income growth of 25%.  David Temple at Multilingual Search has some more numbers: total [...]