http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/favicon.ico http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/rss/author:steve-haar Blog author RSS en http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:google-launches-adwords-blog-for-latin-america Google Launches Adwords Blog for Latin America Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:30:36 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:mobile-search-use How do you use your mobile... what kind of searches, which applications, do you have a preference for apps based on what you are doing, how often? I would like to hear about how you are using mobile search. No survey (that presumes I actually know what questions to ask you). Just free flowing email to me. If you can grab a screen shot of your app, send that along. When I have a bunch of input, I'll post on it. (I know the audience here is a bit skewed). Wed, 28 May 2008 17:48:20 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:yahooeditorialprocess Yahoo! ad approval process stuck. New ads will not go live. Wed, 07 May 2008 20:42:32 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:yahoo Not even thinly veiled, this reference to Google demonstrates Microsoft's inability to beat Google solo. Even long term, MS is not culturally in the right position to play the way Google does. They need Yahoo!. Not just the media prowess and social knowledge. More than anything, they need the culture. Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:26:53 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:baidu-is-going-abroad-to-japan The truth is, there is, or at least will be, enough market out there for 2 or 3 really big search engines. The industry, on a global basis is still very nascent. Whether it is geo-based or vertically based, as the industry grows, there will be a number of opportunities for several large players to split the pie. Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:57:38 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:does-search-make-us-more-efficient-or-just-more-independent ...the comScore study: 29 days, 12 searches, 22 travel websites and 2.5 visits to the website of the ultimate purchase. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:49:47 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:yahoo-mobile-widgets-challenge-google-platform This week at the consumer electronics show, Yahoo made a direct chellenge to Google’s Android open plantform for developers. I have been a proponent of Yahoo’s strategy to develop content and applications vs. Googles approach to an open platform that relies on developers. It appears that Yahoo is taking a very comprehensive approach. Yahoo has an open platform for the development of mobile widgets that can be load from the mobile Go 3.0 (new release). Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:50:02 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:google-webmaster-support-global-expansion Google Webmaster support is continuing to expand for the global search community. Today, Google announced web master support for Hebrew, Turkish and Hungarian languages. Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:44:34 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:googlehowmuchmoregrowthisthere Peruse the numbers released by comScore this month, and it becomes evident that in terms of unique visitors internationally, Google is growing as fast as the internet itself. In France, Germany, Canada, and Japan the number of unique visitors to Google are growing at 1-2%, or even shrinking 1%. Now, when you already have 90% of the unique visitors, such as in the UK, your growth is tied to the market, and even at great risk of going counter to the market. Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:15:50 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:yahoomobile while carriers wait to see if Google\'s open source route will provide the applications they want with the necessary support, Yahoo! is developing them and bringing them to the carriers and service providers around the world. Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:53:18 +0100