The Search Marketing Standard has a very interesting feature section in its fall issue. The topic is “international search markets” and five writers present the search engine scenes of five important markets: the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Russia and China.

The United Kingdom
In her presentation of the UK, Andrew Girdwood points out that Google is the […]

Mr. SEO attacks Pandia and Indian SEO in a recent blog post, arguing that all Indian SEO companies are incompetent spammers.
This week’s article on the outsourcing of search engine marketing to India has caught the attention of Alan over at the blog Inside with Mr. SEO.
We welcome all kinds of fair criticism, but this […]

There is nothing new in American and European companies outsourcing their search engine optimization activities. But now, more and more are turning to India to get the work done.
India has become one of the leading information technology nations of the world.

Although the country in may ways continue to be a third world nation, significant […]

AOL gives up on the Netscape social news portal and turns it back into an ordinary news site.
The Netscape social society experiment is apparently over. Last summer AOL turned the portal into a digg-like site where users could submit, vote for and comment upon news articles and stories.
Search engine marketers report that Netscape do generate […]

Google has announced new features for their book search service, including search for popular quotes.
You may now use the search engine to create your own library. My Library can be used to organize, comment, and search the full text of the books you select.
You may also add labels, write reviews and rate books, before […]

Google Reader now lets you search the content of the web feeds you subscribe to.
More and more web users are discovering the advantage of RSS web feeds. Many professionals have stopped visiting their favorite web sites on a regular basis. Instead they add the RSS or Atom feeds of these sites to their RSS reader, […]

Researchers studying web search behavior may now get access to parts of Google’s raw data.
Academics that sign up for the Google Research University Research Program for Google Search will get access to basic information about specific search queries performed by searchers using Google’s search engine.
It seems the data include web search results limited by rate, […]

This summer podcast search engine Podzinger changed its name to Everyzing. It is now a digital media search engine.
The Internet has much to answer for when it comes to annoying wayz of zpelling thingz and the stupid habit of WritingSeveralWords as one. We do see the humor in “Everyzing” though.
The podcast search engine Podzinger has […]

Companies have been rushing to embrace social media in droves over the last year. While it’s great to see companies embracing Web 2.0, I worry sometimes about the number of companies rushing in to talk rather than listen. After all, one of the greatest benefits of social media is having the ability to find out […]

Aaron over at AjaxNinja has a great post this week exploring why niche social media sites are better than Digg when it comes to driving traffic and conversions to most web sites. While I’ve never been much of a Digg fan myself, (it’s like news for the angry ADHD techie) I see true value in […]