Some were a bit misguided (“Portals are the future direction of the Web! Tablets, on the other hand, are primarily being used in the home at this time, with 92 percent of tablet Internet access happening on WiFi networks.
Social networks, news sites, video portals, press releases, brand sites, and blogs that keep news and updates brand-spanking will have greater influence on the SERP. Wael Ghonim, the Google marketing executive who frontlined the Egyptian revolution...
Accessing search engines comes a close second at 89 percent as an activity that fuels Internet usage in the country, followed by email and visiting online portals. According to the study in partnership with Nielsen, search plays a significant role...
Web portals remain the overwhelming way that Chinese internet users spend their time. Web portals – meaning sites that aggregate content from a variety of sources to provide a one-stop collection of relevant, current data – make up 24.4 percent of...
Well, Google entered intro syndication contracts with various Chinese web portals. However the search giant still had a presence as the back-end search provider for China Internet portal, Sina. Google stopped censoring results in China in January...
Because of this, search marketers are going to need to start focusing on more sophisticated link-building strategies -- organizations will need to develop links from more "neutral" sites such as news portals or by appearing in a search engine's...
News portals frequently sign these types of partnership deals. By and large, web directories are the telephone pages of the Internet. Every day over the next two weeks, we'll repost the most popular columns of the year, starting at No.and counting...
We saw many foreign brands (including U.S.shopping portals and travel portals) entering into the Japanese market regardless of the economy for which we were involved in terms of SEM. Preston Carey: The biggest change in Russian search is the...
Grab Networks' proposition to brand advertisers using video: why focus solely on video portals when video is being embedded and watched all over the web? Venezuelan Govt Wants To Regulate The Internet by Frank Watson
However, there are still some big portals, such as www.gmx.de and www.web.de as well as other search engines such as tOnline (powered by Google) and Yahoo. Only 5.4 percent (up from 3.4 percent in 2008) of Germans use mobile Internet and search...
Social networking rose 28% but only accounted for 10.5% of mobile online activity, putting it at a third place behind portals with a 11.6% share of time. Meanwhile, search only took 1% of U.S.internet users' time in June, the research firm said.
Unlike the global engines, which have Webmaster portals, you have to tell Baidu where to find the files via your robots.txt file. To succeed in China it's critical to understand Chinese consumers, how they use the Internet, and how they would...
Although search engines cropped up in the early days, the quality of results simply weren't good enough in the beginning to drive people to use search as their main channel for web navigation, and "portals" became the primary channel for exploration.
There are a few other Italian portals, including Tiscali.it and Libero.it. The most used search engine is Google Italy with an astonishing market share of 88 percent (according to Nielsen NetView, Search Market Share, Italy, June 2009), followed by...
If you require portals to be down for "maintenance" on the anniversary of pro-democracy protests in your country - that's censorship. As we learned in the last post, China says that the United States' accusations of Internet censorship are baseless.
and AOL are focusing on content portals and Bing is busy trying to take down Google, Ask is simply focused on improving the user experience. When Internet users conduct searches at Ask.com, they pose their keywords as questions three times more...
Submit your site to all relevant mobile search engines, portals, directories, and business listings. The ones to test on are Opera Mini, Thunderhawk, Internet Explorer Mobile, Android, Mozilla's Minimo, Skyfire, and Safari for the iPhone.
A look at the chart below shows us that consumers are rapidly increasing their usage of "other" (meaning searches from portals, directories, resources, multimedia, and social networking sites).click to enlarge
Efforts to lure viewers to these portals appear to be paying off, as 35 percent of internet users now say they have viewed a television show or movie online. While much of the content on video sharing sites is user-generated, there is also a...
When just viewing local searches on the major portals, we see Google taking the lead. Today's local search landscape is relatively fragmented to include major search engines, Internet yellow pages, city guides, and more.
