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

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Local search got a big boost this month when Google rolled out an international change: showing local results on non-local queries.  So now a search for ‘machine shops’ shows a local 10-pack for machine shops near me in Minneapolis:

Before this update, I would have had to search using “machine shops minneapolis” to get the local [...]

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 [...]

Google Translate has added Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Galician, Estonian, Albanian, and Maltese to its repertoire.  This means that you can now find out what The Maltese Falcon is in…Hungarian ( máltai sólyom).  The total number of languages now available is 41, which, according to Google, covers “98% of Internet users” and makes 1,640 possible pairs [...]

Comscore has released the latest numbers from the online video market in Germany.  In December 2008 over 3 billion videos were watched by more than 28 million people.  That’s an increase of 10% over December 2007!
Some of the other interesting numbers that Comscore gave for Germany and online video:

77% of the total Internet audience in [...]