If you’re marketing to Japanese, then put a Japanese man in the picture not a Korean or Chinese guy. Webmaster tools, geo-location setup, canonicals and hreflang tags are imperative if you’re sticking with your .com and want to tell Google and the...
One thing North Korean definitely won't be happy about is the appearance of gulags – or forced prison camps – on Google's new maps. With the assistance of locals, Google has updated its Maps service to fill in many of the blanks of North Korea's...
Mixing awkward humor (like the part in “Gangnam style” when Psy tries to lay on a man’s shoulder in the sauna) with just-plain-funny humor (like the little Korean kid dancing like Michael Jackson) is a great method to keep people curious and...
Last week, Google's Panda algorithm debuted to a new audience – Japanese and Korean languages. If the last few days haven't been chaotic enough for you, what with all the confusing link warnings, brace yourself for some more fun.
The company has previously crossed paths with the South Korean government. Google has disclosed a pair of ongoing international government probes into its business practices. The company said in a filing with the U.S.
Korean spelling has also improved for queries typed in the wrong keyboard mode. 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.
Knowledge Qweb content” in Korean, Naver figured out that user-generated content (UGC) might be the key to solving its lack of content problems. A question and answer (Qless supply” (Korean web content), yet high demand (search queries), you’re...
The Korean integration is delayed only because it involves "three-way integration between Yahoo, Microsoft, and Daum. Yahoo has finished transitioning to a Bing back-end in every country except Korea.
The Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) raided Google's Seoul offices, according to an individual familiar with the matter, starting on Tuesday. The reason for the raid was a claim from NHN Corp and Daum Communications Corp, two Korean companies...
Mind you the Korean system involves government verification of ID, but Google does ask for the same when people reinstate accounts, so I would say it is playing in the same pond, perhaps even on the same lily pad.
The Panda algorithm, as Google tells us, is now functional on searches in "all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where we continue to test improvements. Google's Panda update has now launched around the world in all but three languages.
In January, Daum partnered with Twitter to allow Korean users log in its portal and the microblog simultaneously to update their tweets. As illustrated above, these Korean companies aren't just search engines but portal sites that offer a range of...
So you can either hire a Korean speaker or hire an agency with Korean resources. This 12-year-old Korean search engine and portal dominates the pocketbooks of advertisers, having taken in a whopping $679 million in ad sales in 2010, or 72 percent...
Earlier today, the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) raided Google's offices in Seoul, on allegations the search giant had collected location data without permission. To collect personal information, Google must first receive consent or approval...
Korean Companies Claim Google's Android Blocking Competing Search Apps by Danny Goodwin Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of April 10 to 16, as reported by Search Engine Watch.
The owners of South Korea's largest search engines have filed complaints against Google with the country's Fair Trade Commission, alleging that local phone carriers and manufacturers were banned from embedding their search applications on mobile...
North Korean Officials Tour Google HQ by Danny Goodwin Search Engine Optimization Technical SEO: Tools and Approach by Adam Audette Where do you start? What types of areas should you be investigating, and why?
After the meeting, the North Korean group attended a lunch seminar at Stanford University that also included other tech firms. A group of 12 "mid-ranking" officials from North Korea secretly visited Google's Mountain View headquarters Friday morning.
Local networking sites dominate the Korean marketplace, with Facebook lagging far behind at about 1.5 million users. Social media networking sites continue to be one of the hottest commodities in the international online marketplace.
If you wondered what languages are on this list they are Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian...
