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Reacting to news of cyber attacks targeting the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, Google announced this week that it would cease cooperating with the Chinese government to censor results from its Google.cn website, a move that is likely to lead to the search giant’s effective withdrawal from the Chinese market. The attack, according… Read more »
Statistics released earlier this week by media monitoring and research firm Nielsen suggest that Google continued to dominate the U.S. search engine market in 2009’s final month, as roughly 6.7 billion searches were performed in the studied time period. The statistics seem to indicate that search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners would not have to heavily… Read more »
Baidu, China’s dominant search engine, has apparently cut off access to Google’s company blog, after a post appeared there detailing the latter company’s decision to cease cooperation with the Chinese government over concerns with censorship and cyber crime. Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan reports that, while the blog entry is easily available on many other… Read more »
Homegrown internet search provider Baidu will have a golden opportunity to cement its hold over the Chinese market as Google appears likely to relinquish its roughly 30 percent share of search traffic
Indian legal analysts have said that a recently changed law that strengthens restrictions against adult content on the internet is an unwieldy tool for affecting social change and not worth the hindra
It’s easy, given the general dominance of Google and its high levels of utility relative to other search engines, to rely on the giant search engine, both as a search engine optimization (SEO) practitioner and an internet user. However, Resource Shelf offers a glimpse into the world of search beyond Google. Searching for slides from… Read more »
Search engine optimization (SEO) experts are divided on the issue of SEO metrics, with various advocates debating the merits of conversion rates against page ranks.SEO Roundtable reports that one of the more recent discussions of the issue has been in progress recently on Cre8asite’s forums, sparked by a posting from a user looking to hire… Read more »
In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, many online measures generally used for localized marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) are proving to be helpful for those coordinating and directing the relief effort. Derek Gordon, writing at MediaPost, says that Google was among the tech firms to quickly take action in support of… Read more »
Figures from a study conducted by researcher Efficient Frontier suggest that spending on Google accounts for three-fourths of the money spent on search marketing in the U.S. Search Engine Land editor Matt McGee writes that the report offers an "overall positive outlook on search advertising," and that the search giant’s two biggest competitors – Yahoo… Read more »
Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, has filed a lawsuit in New York this week, claiming that domain service register.com failed to adequately protect its servers from a recent attack by a group calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army." CNET reports that Baidu’s suit alleges "gross negligence" on the part of register.com, resulting in the search… Read more »