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In Search Month European Edition we bring you a monthly update of European search news, with related links to full coverage. Here’s what happened in January.
Germany content owners call for investigation of Google. German newspaper publishers association (BDZV), Microsoft owned Ciao and online maps service Euro-Cities AG called the German cartel authorities to investigate Google’s [...]

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In Search Month European Edition we bring you a monthly update of European search news, with related links to full coverage. Here’s what happened in December.
Google fined $430,000 dollars in France. A Parisian court ruled that Google should be fined over $430,000 dollars because it has broken French copyright laws by displaying snippets of books [...]

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Russian search engine Yandex is teaming up with Maxthon, a popular Chinese browser. Their partnership will yield a Russian language version of the browser. Of course, Yandex will be set as default on the browser.

Yandex is the leading search provider in Russia and the second largest in Europe. comScore has Yandex at 44% of the Russian search market and Google at just 10%.

Meanwhile, Maxthon’s global browser share was 1.55% in August 2009, according to Net Applications. Their largest overseas market is Russian, so the partnership with Yandex certainly makes sense.

Barry Lloyd is a search marketing entrepreneur who first dabbled - successfully in SEO and then took on the giant analytics firms by offering internationally-minded solutions. In this interview he offers useful insight on the process of internationalization and intriguing insights into the relationship between search engines and tool vendors worldwide.

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