YouTube in its official post has reported that considering the number of users outside US, Its high time  for YouTube  to move multilingual and there will be addition of 9 more domains. The launch on the nine new domains will be in Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland, and UK.

In the post,  Sakina Arsiwala, International Manager, YouTube says

In response to many requests, each new site is fully translated and localized for each country including content (Featured Videos, Director Videos, Promotions), as well as the interfaces, search, user support, and such community features as video ratings, sharing, and content flagging.

These new localized version of YouTube from Google will sophisticate users and will make their search more easier.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google, YouTube, 9 more domains in YouTube

Business week has reported that Google is expected to build a data center in western Iowa and estimated the cost to be around $600 million. The data center is to be opened on the spring of 2009 in Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation’s new business park. The report says,

The Internet leader has already begun construction on a 55-acre site in Council Bluffs, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Neb. The center is expected to create about 200 jobs with an average salary of about $50,000.

Mark

SEO Tags :  Google, Data Center in Iowa

The Wall Street Journal reported that Amid Missteps, Yahoo’s Terry Semel Resigns as CEO. The Board of Directors has appointed Jerry Yang, Yahoo! co-founder and long-time board member, as Chief Executive Officer and also named Susan Decker, formerly Executive Vice President and Head of Advertiser and Publisher Group, as President of the company. In Yahoo media relations press release Yahoo said,

We are incredibly fortunate to have – with Jerry and Sue – two uniquely gifted executives who are exactly what the company needs to build on the progress we’ve made in recent months. And, we appreciate your willingness to serve as non-executive Chairman and be an advisor and important resource for this new management team.

Jerry Yang has stated in his personal blog about Semel that,

I will always be grateful for the incredible achievements under his leadership — and for his mentorship and friendship. We’ll continue to benefit from his support and guidance as he transitions to his role as our Chairman.

He also stated that,

I have the great honor of stepping into the role of Yahoo!’s Chief Executive Officer. Yahoo! has an incredibly bright future and I make this move with deep conviction and enthusiasm.

Yahoo’s PR News has also stated about Semel’s resignation.

Mark

SEO Tags : Yahoo’s CEO, Terry Semel, Jerry Yang, Susan Decker

Google-latlong Blog has reported that Google Maps now allows user ratings and reviews of local businesses. Jonathan Goldman said,

Google Maps has offered a collection of reviews assembled from some of the finest sources on the web for some time, but now we’re augmenting those with reviews from an even better source: you — and, we hope, millions of other opinionated Google users.

Search your favorite place you are interested in and click on the “more info” link. From this page click on “write a review” and get started.

I think all will have a good time explaining your favorite places.

Mark.

SEO Tags : Google Maps, Google

Webmaster world and SERoundtable has reported that the Google Adwords advertisers are annoyed over the column sorting bug. When a advertiser tend to sort his data’s with respect to a specific column, the data was sorted accordingly but no more remembered.

This seems to retain for a couple of weeks and Google advertisers seem to be very annoyed according to the discussion in Webmasterworld forum.

Few statements from Advertisers,

Keep reverting to cost, with zero cost ad campaigns at the top. Normally when you change the column sorting, Google remembers. Mine keeps going back to AVG CPC in ascending order.

I keep changing it back to AVG CPC descending order but it won’t remember it. This happened some time ago, and it’s happening again.

It’s still happening. Annoyed

Mark

SEO Tags : Google Adwords, Search Engine Marketing, Google Webmaster Tools, Google

Google Webmaster Central product manager Vanessa Fox leaves Google and become product team lead at real estate start-up Zillow. The development of new ad, feed and email products are to be taken over by her in zillow.

Vanessa Fox in her personal blog has stated that,

I have an all-new opportunity to work on the unique challenges of the vertical and local search space at Zillow.

I’ll still be around in search. My company name may change, but I still plan to see you all online and at the bar, talking search and Buffy and mobile devices.

And I have great confidence in the webmaster central team and know this project that feels so much like my baby is in very capable hands and will continue to grow and thrive.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google Webmaster Central, Vanessa Fox, Zillow 

YSMBlog has reported that your click charges to be based on quality of traffic. To potentially reduce the cost and increase the value of traffic to Yahoo advertisers Yahoo search moves to quality based pricing models.

Quality calculation from ysmblog,

“Quality” is calculated based on conversion rates and other measurements of the ability of our partners’ sites to deliver more interested, valuable customers to you.

The impact of these changes will be on the cost-per-click and the also on the amount spent on Ads.

Mark

SEO Tags : Search Engine Marketing, Yahoo, Yahoo Search marketing

Blinkx, a video search engine as discussed has indexed more than 12,000,000 hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it “fully searchable and available on demand.” Blinkx Strikes Ask.com Video Search-Engine Deal from CNNMoney.com reports that Blinkx will establish a deal with Ask.com and will help in video searches.

From CNNMoney,

Ask.com customers will be able to search for news clips, music videos and other television content by accessing a Blinkx search box on the Ask.com website.

Blinkx claims it’s the world’s largest video search engine and is looking to profit from video advertising spending, which research firm eMarketer estimates will top $2.9 billion in the U.S. alone by 2010.

From Prnewswire,

“Ask.com’s momentum is impressive and we’re very proud to be powering their new video search offering,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “This relationship further demonstrates our technology leadership in the video search space and is an exciting development for our 130 or so media partners whose content can now be accessed through Ask.com.”

Mark

SEO Tags : Ask.com, Blinkx, Video Search

Search Engine Land has mentioned the study of search engine queries from Dogpile. From the April 2007 study by Queensland University of Technology and Pennsylvania State University has stated that,

• The percent of total results unique to one search engine was established to be 88.3 percent.
• The percent of total results shared by any two search engines was established to be 8.9 percent.
• The percent of total results shared by three search engines was established to be 2.2 percent.
• The percent of total results shared by the top four search engines was established to be 0.6 percent.

The majority of first page results are unique:

• On average, 69.6 percent of Google first page search results were unique to Google.
• On average, 79.4 percent of Yahoo! first page search results were unique to Yahoo!

Sponsored links on Google and Yahoo:

• Only 4.6 percent of Yahoo! and Google sponsored links overlap for a given query.
• For 22.8 percent of all queries Google did not return a sponsored link where Yahoo! returned one or more.
• For 9.9 percent of all queries Yahoo! did not return a sponsored link where Google returned one or more.

Find the complete study on infospace.

Mark

SEO Tags : Dogpile, Search Engines, Google, Yahoo

Google announced the acquisition of Panoramio, Panoramio is a photo mapping software which links millions of photos with the exact geographical location and the website is based on spain. So this aquisition will be very useful for Google in completing Google Earth application.

More details of Panoramio on Google : http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/annc_panoramio.html

Panoramio’s blog on aquisition of Google,

Most people upload their photos to Panoramio to share them through Google Earth, and it’s way cool to see Panoramio’s photos in Google Earth, so the upcoming acquisition reaffirms the current win-win situation.

Mark

SEO Tags : Panoramio, Google Earth