First they blocked Google search, driving the world’s most popular search engine out of the country, now the Chinese authorities seem to have set their sights on Google Android. (more…)
Recent ‘multilingual’ News Stories
Google Android Apps Blocked In China
Monday, 10th October 2011Tags: android, china, google, mobile, mobile-applications
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Yahoo! Target Of Cyber Attacks In China
Wednesday, 31st March 2010The issues relating to cyber-attacks in China that led to Google’s withdrawal from the country are not yet over. The BBC is now reporting that Yahoo! email accounts were also targeted. (more…)
Tags: china, google, search, yahoo
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GoDaddy Stops Offering Chinese Domain Names
Thursday, 25th March 2010Following closely on the heels of Google, the popular domain registrar GoDaddy has also announced their decision to pull out of the Chinese market. (more…)
Tags: censorship, china, godaddy, google
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Google Exits China
Tuesday, 23rd March 2010Google formally announced plans to leave China yesterday after their threat to stop censoring search result on Google.cn was met with severe opposition from the Chinese government. (more…)
Tags: censorship, china, china-mobile, google
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Google China Backtracks On Censorship Decision
Thursday, 14th January 2010Following a spate of highly sophisticated and targeted attacks on Google’s infrastructure, which originated from China, Google has decided to review their business operations in that country. (more…)
Tags: censorship, china, google
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(Funny) Automatic Captions On YouTube
Tuesday, 24th November 2009YouTube has just introduced the ability to provide automatic captions on all user videos. (more…)
Tags: accessibility, multilingual, video, video-search, youtube
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Google Annihilates Microsoft, Yahoo! In Mobile
Wednesday, 8th July 2009If Global Stats from StatCounter are to be believed, Microsoft and Yahoo! might as well pack their bags and say goodbye to mobile search, because Google reportedly owns 97% of the market. (more…)
Tags: altavista, aol, ask.com, bing, google, google mobile, microsoft, mobile search, mobile-live-search, msn, seznam, windows, yahoo, Yandex
Posted in mobile, multilingual, search | 7 Comments »
Google Webmaster Central Promoting AdWords In France
Tuesday, 7th July 2009French website owners who don’t currently advertise on Google AdWords might notice a message waiting for them when logged into Google Webmaster Tools. (more…)
Tags: france, google, google adwords
Posted in google, multilingual, ppc, seo | 4 Comments »
Google Japan to Google, “We’re Sorry”
Monday, 16th February 2009Google was the object of ridicule among many SEO professionals last week, when the search giant penalised its own subsidiary for buying links. (more…)
Tags: blogs, google, google search, japan, link-building, yahoo
Posted in google, multilingual, search, seo | 1 Comment »
Mozilla Replaces Google With Yandex
Tuesday, 13th January 2009Google is the default home page for Mozilla Firefox browsers. This situation is likely to change in the near future in Russia. (more…)
Tags: chrome, firefox, google, Mozilla, russia, Yandex
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EU And Search Engines Battle Over Privacy Laws
Thursday, 18th December 2008It is a well known fact that search engines retain data regarding the searches conducted by their clients for a long period of time. While they may have their reasons for doing so, the EU has taken objection to this practice, as it affects the privacy of users. (more…)
Tags: data-protection, european-union, privacy, search
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China Spying And Censoring Skype Conversations
Wednesday, 8th October 2008A report from Canadian researchers affiliated to the University of Toronto have revealed that China has been blocking messages that contain certain ‘sensitive words’. (more…)
Tags: ban, censorship, china, government, multilingual, politics, skype, tibet
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Google Improves Internet Access In Developing Nations
Thursday, 18th September 2008In keeping with their goal to make information available easily, all over the world, Google has decided to invest in a O3b Networks, an organisation that aims to provide Internet connectivity all over the world, especially to people in developing nations. (more…)
Tags: africa, asia, google, internet, middle-east, satellite
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Chinese Mobile Ad Industry Thriving
Monday, 8th September 2008China’s mobile ad industry has taken a huge leap forward in the first half of 2008. The nation’s leading mobile advertising company, Madhouse, Inc., has reportedly served over 2.3 billion mobile ad impressions in the first half of this year, which is already about 5 times the total number of mobile ads served in the entire previous year. (more…)
Tags: china, mobile, mobile advertising, ppc
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Google Launches MP3 Search In China
Monday, 11th August 2008A post on the Music 2.0 blog mentions that Google has launched a legal MP3 (music) search service in China under the URL www.google.cn/music. (more…)
Tags: china, google, mp3, search
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Iran To Execute Bloggers
Thursday, 10th July 2008The official news agency of Iran carried a report a while ago stating that the parliament is likely to toughen some of the laws, already in existence and make anti-establishment blogging an offence punishable by death. (more…)
Tags: blogs, censorship, iran
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