With the assistance of locals, Google has updated its Maps service to fill in many of the blanks of North Korea's most remote locations, providing a more detailed picture of the country. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt recently visited North...
Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Poland were the other countries listed by comScore as the territories where Facebook doesn’t command the greatest market share but even in its own back yard, Facebook shouldn't rest on its laurels.
Park also highlighted to me that Google Korea has a completely different way of organizing Universal Search Results compared to the rest of the world and that in their own tests, BrightEdge found that Mobile Rankings differ depending on whether...
In Asia Pacific, YouTube has presence in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. As part of Google’s goal to roll out localized YouTube sites internationally, the video sharing site has launched in Indonesia...
Other popular search engines such as Yandex (Russia) and Naver (South Korea) will have their own quirks and peculiarities. Google Analytics will be able to give you an idea of how many foreign visitors your English language website already attracts.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it is the subject of probes in both Argentina and South Korea. Both Argentina’s Comision Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia and the Korea Fair Trade Commission in South Korea have also opened an...
For example, in Chapter 8 it is mentioned that in South Korea it is normal to see 30-40 search results from a typical search (in most search engines). For example, due to privacy and political issues some regions like China, Google’s own hosted...
Google Korea’s search results are more organized with sections for news, blogs, and homepages. Changes to local search results topped Google’s monthly recap of search and algorithmic updates from February, but there were nearly 40 new updates...
In Asia, the Doodle is featured on Google sites in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Korea. Last but not least, below is Google’s Doodle for the dragon year. You can see Google's Year of the Rabbit Doodle for last year's Chinese New Year here.
Here’s a look at mobile search data for 10 of the Asia Pacific countries from the study: Australia, urban China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. When it comes to using search on the smartphone, India...
In Korea, smartphone users report an average of 42 apps downloaded on their phone, according to Google. Google isn’t dominating in Korea (29 percent), but in Japan occupies a 58 percent share and growing.
Likewise, Naver is the market leader within South Korea and Yandex and Seznam are the market leaders in Russia and the Czech Republic respectively. Google is, without doubt, the single biggest and, by extension, the most important search engine...
As pointed out in my recent article on Naver’s paid search, it's a dynamic, complex software system appealing to an affluent yet small market by Asian standards (South Korea’s population is only approximately 50 million).
Google will run Motorola as an independent business unit to reassure Android partners such as Samsung and HTC that the $12.5 billion deal won’t affect their use of Android, Schmidt said during a visit to South Korea, home to Samsung, the most...
As a result of the search alliance forged by Bing and Yahoo, Microsoft receives a share of revenue and is responsible for running Yahoo's search ads and algorithm on all Yahoo properties except Yahoo Japan – Bing is already powering all organic...
As of the most recent Yahoo update, Bing runs Yahoo in every country but Korea (where Bing will take over by the end of the year) and Japan (where the independently run Yahoo Japan chose a Google partnership).
Algorithmic transition across Asia recently completed, with Korea scheduled to changeover in November. Except for Korea, the Bing algorithm results are now 100 percent integrated into Yahoo. Shashi Seth, a Google and eBay veteran who joined Yahoo...
This is the second raid in South Korea in less than six months; Google was also raided by police in August 2010 for illegally grabbing and storing data as part of Street View. The Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) raided Google's Seoul offices...
Naver commands more than 70 percent market share in South Korea, making it the fifth most used search engine in the world, following Google, Yahoo, Baidu, and Bing. In Singapore, Google’s regional office established in 2007 employs around 250 staff.
Just two years ago in 2009, in the name of Internet freedom, Google refused to go along with South Korea’s Real ID/Real Name policy. Why did Google in 2009 refuse to honor South Korea’s real name system and now insist on one for Google users?
