Russia: Yandex Stays Ahead of Google
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 [...]
Continue ReadingTaking Advantage of Local Search
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 [...]
Continue ReadingWhat’s the Meaning of Google Translate? 41
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 [...]
Continue ReadingGermany Continues to Embrace Online Video
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 [...]
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