By the numbers:
million: The number of banned ads. The number of advertisers banned. China, Japan, and India were the biggest offenders. Once again, the Google AdWords team has reported on its continued efforts to eliminate bad AdWords ads.
The site is officially banned in China but local sites are massive within the market. One rather large gap in Facebook's global domination comes in the shape of China. An eMarketer report lists TencentQZone at the front of the pack in China, while...
In China (where both Facebook and Twitter are officially banned), Qzone rules the roost while VK (formerly Vkontakte) has a huge following in Russia. Baidu is the market leader in China for example, and effective SEO varies between Baidu and Google...
Google+, the new Google social network, may already be banned or slowed in China. People in China tend toward web portals over social sites, and the social sites that are present are adapated to the trends of Chinese users; even if completely...
The owners of South Korea's largest search engines have filed complaints against Google with the country's Fair Trade Commission, alleging that local phone carriers and manufacturers were banned from embedding their search applications on mobile...
GoogleBanned BeatThatQuote Again! China dismisses Google accusations on Gmail - Reuters Google to Change Tablet Targeting Options - Rimm-Kaufman Group Cool Tool of the Trade - Capturing Full Screen Search Result Screenshots - Understanding Google...
Search terms like BitTorrent (and several other combinations of the word "torrent"), RapidShare, and Megaupload are among the new banned words in Google's Instant results and Autocomplete, as Google begins its crackdown on terms closely associated...
Click Bombing YouTube Publishers To Get Them Banned - Search Engine Roundtable Forget Altruism: China Too Big A Prize For Google To Give Up by Frank Watson Google Responds To Android SMS Bug: Fixes Are On The Way - TechCrunch
Something tells me this service may soon be added to the banned list - so the battle lines appear to be drawn. The Official Google Blog came out with their new actions in regards to access to all things Google in mainland China.
Facebook was recently banned in China, so the folks in Palo Alto, California, are trying to determine the best strategy for playing in this giant market. Facebook dominates in most countries, and is growing, but social network Qzone, or QQ, still...
Google's street view vehicles have also been banned from U.S.military bases. Forget Tibet; Free the Content SEARCHING FOR MEANING In China, search engines are responsible for the content to which they provide links.
Many have decided that Facebook and MySpace in the workplace are not appropriate (for content or productivity reasons) and have banned the sites from being accessed at their offices. China's Sohu.com Posts 600% Jump in Profit Posted by Nathania...
In Myanmar, Internet usage will continue to be restricted or banned. China's percentage of global search share will increase dramatically, be it through Baidu or even Google and Yahoo China. Justified or not, there will be renewed calls for...
Google Adds School Report Sellers To Banned AdWords Advertisers' ListThe list of non-allowed advertising at Google's AdWords just got a little bigger. News from SES ChinaSeveral intrepid travelers made the trip to Xiamen for SES China last week.
Google ranks The Colbert Nation #1 for "giant brass balls"Stephen Colbert's viewers, who have already been banned by Wikipedia, have now mastered the art of googlebombing. SES China: May 25-26, 2007 Google Adds Link Tools, Renames FroogleGoogle...
Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal has uncovered another pay-per-digg scheme Subvert and Profit that claims that it won’t get users banned from popular social network promotion tool Digg. SES China: May 25-26, 2007
Another pay-per-digg scheme claims it won't get users banned from popular social network promotion tool Digg. The Outlook for Search in China, Read/Write Web Google Website Optimizer Now Widely AvailableGoogle Website Optimizer, which was launched...
Brandt is banned from editing on Wikipedia following exchanges with members and founder Jimmy Wales over biographical entries he considers to be "invasions of privacy. Google allows search results to be censored in China, but all you have to do is...
Earlier this month, I dinged Google over hypocrisy for getting behind Banned Business Journal covers how Yahoo -- under fire for allegedly harming
journalists in China -- is going to fund fellowships for journalists in
countries with press...
Earlier this month, I
dinged Google
over hypocrisy for getting behind Banned Books Week given its support of
censorship in China. Yahoo funds $1M Stanford journalism fellowship from the San Jose Business Journal
covers how Yahoo -- under fire...