South Korea: Credit cards are the most popular It might have to do with your online payment methods. Payment methods per country vary as much as the language, culture, and people vary. According to a report published by eMarketer last year, global...
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. While many people around the globe are fascinated with 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.
In this area of Korea, there are many people who are considered posers and wannabes, and the “Gangnam Style” video is poking fun at these people trying to be something that they are not. Gangnam Style” is such a revolutionary video because it puts...
North Korea For the 12th straight year, Yahoo has announced their annual year in review. Since 2001, Yahoo has compiled lists of the top search queries entered into the search box in an attempt to determine the year's top stories, fads, and...
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. China is now the world’s largest mobile market. Official stats released in February showed the country has more than 1 billion mobile...
Other popular search engines such as Yandex (Russia) and Naver (South Korea) will have their own quirks and peculiarities. Consumers are no longer passive recipients of direct marketing messages (if they ever were).
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). "Global Search Engine Marketing" is a unique technical resource (though the approach is similar...
Google Korea’s search results are more organized with sections for news, blogs, and homepages. Local Search s local search results. Google said it is now relying more on its main search result rankings as a signal to trigger local universal results.
In Asia, the Doodle is featured on Google sites in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Korea. January 23 is Chinese New Year, and heralds the Lunar New Year of the Water Dragon, a once in every 60 years occurrence.
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...
And in Korea it’s grown by 10 percent. In Korea, we see that Café’s (Naver’s blog platform) that have more interaction in comments, reviews, and likes tend to get selected to appear in the main search listing on the Naver top page more than those...
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...
Yahoo has finished transitioning to a Bing back-end in every country except Korea. 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...
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...
