Following a spate of highly sophisticated and targeted attacks on Google’s infrastructure, which originated from China, Google has decided to review their business operations in that country. (more…)
Recent ‘multilingual’ News Stories
Google China Backtracks On Censorship Decision
Thursday, 14th January 2010Tags: censorship, china, google
Posted in google, internet, multilingual | 1 Comment »
(Funny) Automatic Captions On YouTube
Tuesday, 24th November 2009YouTube has just introduced the ability to provide automatic captions on all user videos. (more…)
Tags: accessibility, multilingual, video, video-search, youtube
Posted in Technology, multilingual, seo, video | No Comments »
Google Annihilates Microsoft, Yahoo! In Mobile
Wednesday, 8th July 2009If Global Stats from StatCounter are to be believed, Microsoft and Yahoo! might as well pack their bags and say goodbye to mobile search, because Google reportedly owns 97% of the market. (more…)
Tags: altavista, aol, ask.com, bing, google, google mobile, microsoft, mobile-live-search, mobile-search, msn, seznam, windows, yahoo, Yandex
Posted in mobile, multilingual, search | 12 Comments »
Google Webmaster Central Promoting AdWords In France
Tuesday, 7th July 2009French website owners who don’t currently advertise on Google AdWords might notice a message waiting for them when logged into Google Webmaster Tools. (more…)
Tags: france, google, google-adwords
Posted in google, multilingual, ppc, seo | 10 Comments »
Google Japan to Google, “We’re Sorry”
Monday, 16th February 2009Google was the object of ridicule among many SEO professionals last week, when the search giant penalised its own subsidiary for buying links. (more…)
Tags: blogs, google, google search, japan, link-building, yahoo
Posted in google, multilingual, search, seo | 1 Comment »
Mozilla Replaces Google With Yandex
Tuesday, 13th January 2009Google is the default home page for Mozilla Firefox browsers. This situation is likely to change in the near future in Russia. (more…)
Tags: chrome, firefox, google, Mozilla, russia, Yandex
Posted in Technology, google, internet, multilingual | No Comments »
EU And Search Engines Battle Over Privacy Laws
Thursday, 18th December 2008It is a well known fact that search engines retain data regarding the searches conducted by their clients for a long period of time. While they may have their reasons for doing so, the EU has taken objection to this practice, as it affects the privacy of users. (more…)
Tags: data-protection, european-union, privacy, search
Posted in multilingual, search | No Comments »
China Spying And Censoring Skype Conversations
Wednesday, 8th October 2008A report from Canadian researchers affiliated to the University of Toronto have revealed that China has been blocking messages that contain certain ’sensitive words’. (more…)
Tags: ban, censorship, china, government, multilingual, politics, skype, tibet
Posted in News, multilingual | No Comments »
Google Improves Internet Access In Developing Nations
Thursday, 18th September 2008In keeping with their goal to make information available easily, all over the world, Google has decided to invest in a O3b Networks, an organisation that aims to provide Internet connectivity all over the world, especially to people in developing nations. (more…)
Tags: africa, asia, google, internet, middle-east, satellite
Posted in Technology, google, internet, multilingual | No Comments »
Chinese Mobile Ad Industry Thriving
Monday, 8th September 2008China’s mobile ad industry has taken a huge leap forward in the first half of 2008. The nation’s leading mobile advertising company, Madhouse, Inc., has reportedly served over 2.3 billion mobile ad impressions in the first half of this year, which is already about 5 times the total number of mobile ads served in the entire previous year. (more…)
Tags: china, mobile, mobile-advertising, ppc
Posted in mobile, multilingual | No Comments »
Google Launches MP3 Search In China
Monday, 11th August 2008A post on the Music 2.0 blog mentions that Google has launched a legal MP3 (music) search service in China under the URL www.google.cn/music. (more…)
Tags: china, google, mp3, search
Posted in google, multilingual | 1 Comment »
Iran To Execute Bloggers
Thursday, 10th July 2008The official news agency of Iran carried a report a while ago stating that the parliament is likely to toughen some of the laws, already in existence and make anti-establishment blogging an offence punishable by death. (more…)
Tags: blogs, censorship, iran
Posted in blogs, multilingual | No Comments »
Carrefour Banned On Google China
Friday, 2nd May 2008During the Olympic torch relay in France, a wheelchair-bound Chinese participant was attacked by pro-Tibet protesters. To add insult to injury, France has granted honorary citizenship to the Dalai Lama, who is the head of the Tibetan Buddhists, who have been agitating against the Chinese Government. These events have apparently not gone down well with both, the Chinese public and government. (more…)
Tags: ban, carrefour, china, google, multilingual-seo, seo
Posted in google, multilingual, seo | 3 Comments »
Most Popular Websites In UK and France
Friday, 5th October 2007Google leads the pack once again this month, as the most popular website in both France and the UK. ComScore’s latest report tracked the top Internet properties visited by Internet users in the UK and France during the month of August 2007. There are no surprises in the top 10 either side of the channel. Facebook, though, is rising in popularity very quickly in the UK and might become one of the top 10 visited sites very soon. (more…)
Tags: ebay, facebook, france, google, internet, microsoft, uk, website
Posted in internet, multilingual | 1 Comment »
Brazil Threatens To Shut Down Google.br
Tuesday, 28th August 2007The government of Brazil has threatened to shut down Google Brazil and fine the company for failure to cooperate with a federal investigation against paedophiles abusing Orkut, the social networking site that was bought by Google back in 2004. (more…)
Tags: brazil, google
Posted in multilingual | 3 Comments »
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