The audience growth continues to evolve and grow in Russia, however, global growth in Western markets where Microsoft has most of their share has slowed down. Yandex surpassed Microsoft on the number of monthly search queries worldwide in November...
Wired posted a story yesterday about how a small riot following the World Series win for the San Francisco Giants sparked what, in China, would be known as a 'human flesh search' for one of the rioters.
I was impressed that my personal favorite, A Tale of Two Sisters was identified as a horror film, but Dark Water wasn't, despite a western remake. There is more Halloween fun to be had on Google aside from the Haunted House doodle.
They included online travel aggregators (OTAs) like Travelocity and Orbitz, opaque sites like Hotwire and Priceline, and brand sites like Hilton and Best Western. Over the past decade microformats have been playing a larger role in how search...
The 6th is located in western Maryland, and has been a longtime GOP stronghold, but was drastically reshaped by redistricting which has made it more competitive,” explains Charles Scrase, Google Politics Barlett and Delaney’s campaigns are waging...
These requests aren’t always from the usual suspects either; Western democracies not typically associated with censorship are participating in the requested removal of political content, says Google’s Senior Policy Analyst, Dorothy Chou.
Compared to Western countries, there is a huge amount of untapped potential. This follows from the last acronym of emerging economies the BRIC group, which consisted of Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
While castigating censorious regimes, Brin also warned Western democracies faced making similar mistakes if they continue to pursue a war against online piracy. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has repeated warnings that the greatest threat to...
District Court for the Western District of Texas accusing 18 companies, including Facebook, Apple, Twitter and Yelp, of distributing privacy-invading mobile apps. Major technology brands behind more than 30 of the top Apple iPhone applications...
Google is the single most widely used search engine worldwide and is usually the most important for Western businesses. It only takes moments to post a comment or photo online, but erasing our “digital footprint” can prove almost impossible.
Part of the greater BBDO “Ask For More" campaign in Asia, we see a young Western Boy inaugurated into the way of the Shaolin in atypical and humorous fashion. Those wild and crazy folks at Unruly are at it again.
Developing markets, which they define as everywhere outside of North America, Japan, and Western Europe, will increase their share of the global ad market from 32.3 percent in 2011 to 35.9 percent in 2014.
Yahoo Japan is the most used search engine within Japan and, while that brand may be well known to Western Internet users, other names may not be so familiar. The main, U.S.focused google.com is the single most visited site, but various...
And here in our Western democracy, freedom of the press is a principle we have upheld despite numerous attempts at censorship, for centuries. FTC's antitrust probe into Google, the search marketing organization SEMPO issues a statement to the FTC...
In Western cultural we printed media top to bottom, left to right. The effectiveness of any successful advertisement relies on understanding how the eye moves across a page, why it is drawn to particular areas, and what causes a viewer to linger at...
The reason unicode was allowed for display names was reasonable – it allowed people whose names were not written in western English characters to set a display name in their native language. One topic that almost certainly won't be discussed at...
The behaviors of the Chinese market when it comes to social, as we previously discussed, are vastly different than behaviors of western users. Google+, the new Google social network, may already be banned or slowed in China.
While I support the use of Unicode, since I think people should be able to write their names out in languages that don't use western English characters, believe me when I say that there's an awful lot of people just messing with unicode in order...
The Chinese argument, especially on government-run mediums, is that the news we get in Western media is tainted by anti-communist bias – and that our propaganda is what's painting the portrait of Chinese issues.
If it makes you Twitterites feel any better, the world's favorite micro-blogging site is also the second most popular social network, with Twitter showing as the second in command in North America, most of Western Europe, and Australia.