Google has been working on supporting IPv6 for a long time and currently (before the launch) has a sub-domain (ipv6.google.com) dedicated to providing a preview of this support. Among the sites participating in the launch are Google, Yahoo...
MB: When we “test” searches on Yandex.ru and Google.ru, comparatively speaking, it seems that Google has much more ads on its search results page – do you agree? MB: Who has the bigger ad network, Google Ru or Yandex?
Twitter’s deal with Google, which powered Google Realtime search, expired last summer. There has been no movement on a new partnership between the two companies – and one seems more unlikely based on Twitter's criticism of Google following the...
While it's generally recognized that investing in a country code top-level domain such as .co.uk for the UK or .ru for Russia can be good for your local rankings (and will certainly do them no harm), Google has geotargeting tools that associate...
Currently in beta, Yandex.AppSearch is taking a page out of Google's book and released only in beta format for users in Russia. Russian search giant Yandex launched a new search engine for mobile apps yesterday at apps.yandex.ru.
Google, meanwhile, continues infinite scrolling tests of their own. Currently, the infinite scroll feature is only available on the yandex.ru site. Russian search engine Yandex has changed the 10 blue links experience for its users.
While Google has dominion in most countries, in Russia it's just a footnote to Yandex, the country's leading search engine. There are five – count them, five – Internet-ready countries that don't turn to Google as the primary search engine.
Russia has Vkontakte.ru; China has RenRen.com; and both Brazil and India have enjoyed Google's social network Orkut. So while trying to answer my own question, I popped over to Google Trends to understand when Orkut's demise began in both India and...
When Google entered it was said it would never understand or be able to deal with the Icelandic language, as it was too complex. In 2010, Leit.is is close to gone and Google holds more than 80 percent of the market.
Yandex's presentation has some similarities to Google Maps/Places. However, one big difference is that Google highlights paid listings as "Ads," but Yandex doesn't. It also supports authorization schemes of a number of Russian services: Yandex...
With the news that Google and Bing take some data from social media sources into account when they rank pages, it seems that now's the time to start factoring multilingual social media campaigns into your international search engine marketing (SEM).
Set up: Like Google's Matt Cutts wrote in his blog "Subdomains-and-Subdirectories" it can be difficult for a novice to set up. For example, .co.uk, .ru, .jp Which should you choose? There are several options outside of having a .com, .net, .org...
For instance, Yandex succeeds in Russia (with a 64 percent market share) where Google.ru fails, largely because it's built around the Cyrillic alphabet and recognizes Russian grammar and inflection. The tricky point to consider here, though, is...
Copyscape works in an underhanded manner, hiding its spider behind a generic User Agent and a domain name that gives you the entirely false impression of somehow being connected to Google while in reality it belongs to Copyscape itself.
Alternatively, Yandex, Russia's largest search engine, stands for "Yet Another iNDEXer", which is a perfect form of punishment toward its search rivals Google, Rambler, and mail.ru, considering its size, growth, and capability to recognize the...
Often described as a copy of Google, Yandex was actually launched in 1997, slightly before Google. Meanwhile, competitors are finding it very tough to keep up, which is why Google has gained 7 points globally, while Yandex has taken its 0.3 points...
People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them. ComScore indicates that Russia has the most engaged social media audience, with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor...
Gmail.ru is now a registered trademark, not for Google, Googling Google More and more gadgets, Official Google Blog I reported this morning at SERoundtable that AdWordsAdvisor Denies Google Uses Dropping Google
There are more details on how Google calculates the query stats in Vanessa's post. Google Reader & Ask's Bloglines Undergo Updates Both Google Reader and Ask.com's Bloglines have gone under some interface and usability updates, with some added...
Google wins google.ru. The MasterList provides a single interface where Shoes.com can manage all online search and product listings at Google, Overture, and other PPC providers. BidRank, a desktop bid management solution that excludes Google, may...
