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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

SMX China just finished in Nanjing yesterday, and Chris Sherman from Search Engine Watch has written a great recap of the event.  Those in China (or others who were lucky enough to go there) who visited the show got great insight into how China’s internet market is expanding and what its future is likely to [...]

With the Olympics in Beijing beginning this week (on the lucky day of 8/8/08), I thought I’d take this opportunity to take a closer look at China and the country’s internet profile. With over 1 billion in population, it’s an enormous market. The internet is booming in China, and now is definitely an [...]