In piracy cases, companies are offered protection by Google by way of making infringing content less accessible. Google was fined $65,000 earlier this year in France, after refusing to remove autocomplete suggestions that labeled a French insurance...
Companies that operate online have special concerns. User behavior in Russia, for example, is so different than what American and European companies are used to,” said Reich. Companies may offer web discounts for online buyers to try to get them to...
And in 2005, they lost their appeal on the trademark case in which Google was found guilty of “trademark counterfeiting” after a complaint by French travel companies Luteciel and Viaticum. However, the French judgment takes the onus off video...
Should companies and sites invest in using Pinterest? Currently, they are looking to add French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. The growth of Pinterest has gone from just over 4 million active users at the end of 2011 (according to their...
The man’s lawyer, Hiroyuki Tomita, told Japan Times his client “decided to seek a court injunction after learning the autocomplete feature likely played a role in the sudden loss of his job several years ago and caused several companies to...
Everything probably would have been fine if it wasn’t for companies that had more then one national presence. Content on the web page is fully translated (e.g.have Spanish, French, and English versions of each page).
There are quite a few people and companies out there who may have suggestions for their names that could be considered defamatory. Google must also remove the word “escroc” (“crook” in French) as suggested searches.
EW: Identifying and developing strategic relationships between companies where a link is part of the process is my single largest source of consulting revenue, so I don't want to give away the farm. EW: Some companies think BizDev link building is...
Tight enforcement of tax policies for multinational companies such as Google has become part of a heated, ongoing political debate, with conservative politicians primarily favoring continued leniency and tax breaks for large corporations and...
Here are four companies that have done just that. Indeed, sales via the French site have doubled year on year, and Hilton Herbs now plans to expand with websites for China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. This online florist discovered that searches for...
Companies Targeting the Canadian Market When asked about the tendency for search engines to ignore multiple pages of similar English content for sites in different countries, using the UK, South Africa, and U.S.as examples, Hunt recommended using...
It's easy to see how Google competes directly with Deal du Jour: Since Google has its own deals program (Google Offers) and is actively acquiring additional deal companies, any other deal company could be a competitor.
The European investigation started in November of last year, when three companies (U.K.price comparison site Foundem, which is partly funded by Microsoft, French legal search engine ejustice.fr, and Microsoft's Ciao by Bing) made a claim that...
Many global companies manage paid search from one ivory tower, setting policies and even creative from HQ to be spread across the lands. And finding the French version of a similar phrase is an entirely different challenge.
With 90 percent of the market in several European countries, Google's role of organizing the world's information has become a critical part of how web-based companies function. Paris-based Internet company 1PlusV is suing Google for €295 million...
Last week here at Search Engine Watch, Dave Davies raised some key points about strategies for optimizing your website for English-speaking foreign markets, such as (for U.S.companies) Canada or the UK.
To increase the odds of getting a link, here are the top five biggest blunders companies should avoid when they venture to global link building. I grew up with a family that had French accents on my father's side and Greek on my mother's side.
Twenty-six Internet companies, including Google, tomorrow will lodge a complaint with France's State Council, the country's highest judical body, in opposition of a decree that forces sites to store users' private data for a year.
The companies alleging Google wrongdoing are U.K.price comparison site Foundem (partly funded by Microsoft); French legal search engine ejustice.fr; and Microsoft's Ciao by Bing. During the meeting, Schmidt asked Almunia to quickly complete the...
Identify persons with principal responsibility for advertising or marketing relationships with vertical search engine advertisers, including but not limited to the following companies: myTriggers, WorthPoint, Foundem, TradeComet.com, and...
