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Google Huge in Brazil and India

Numbers from comScore this week, revealed that Google sites account for nearly 30% of all time spent online in India and Brazil. That is three times higher than the average.

Google Popular In Brazil Too

Online measurement firm Hitwise has launched its service in Brazil. The company says it will track more than 60,000 websites across more than 160 industry categories based on the Internet activity of 90,000 Brazilian Internet users. "As online usage grows in Brazil, so too does competition for the Internet consumer," said Juliano Marcillio, president of Serasa Experian Marketing Services.

Facebook Takes Off In Brazil, India

Facebook's scoring some big gains in the world's second- and fifth-most populous countries.  New stats indicate that the social network's growth rate has started imitating the upright angle of a hockey stick in both India and Brazil.

Brazil Gets Google To Fight Child Porn

According to Sergio Suiama, a Sao Paulo federal prosecutor, around 50,000 pedophilia-related complaints have been connected to Orkut.  By way of response, Google plans to implement a filtering system and retain information for a longer period, but still won't share problem profiles with authorities.

Orkut Promotes Insignificant Photo Capabilities

A lot of signs indicate that Google is preparing Orkut for something big; it may well want the service to compete with the likes of MySpace and Facebook.  But the latest update - allowing users to keep 100 photos in their “orkut albums” - isn’t impressing too many people.

UOL, Buscape Get Accounts With Google

I often ignore unusual punctuation marks (“Yahoo!” becomes “Yahoo,” for example), but “Buscape” sounds like some futuristic thing involving mass transport.  So, instead, I’m here to report that Google has signed deals with UOL and Buscapé in Brazil.

YouTube Wins Brazilian Court Case

YouTube appears to be having a streak of good luck - first we learned that a ban in Thailand had been lifted, and now Google’s video-sharing site has won a court case in Brazil (this case had also, as it so happens, resulted in a block).

PPC Traffic; International YouTube; Safer Results

SERoundtable looks at a WebmasterWorld thread to find out What Type of Traffic Can You Expect from Yahoo Ads Compared to Google Ads.

Google, Indians Join Forces To Limit Logging

Most businesses have a formal and structured environment; at Google, jeans are the norm, and dogs are allowed at work.  But in a move that goes far beyond normal business practices - think pygmy marmosets instead of Great Danes - the search engine company has announced a development involving a tribe of Brazilian Indians.

YouTube Goes To Nine New Nations

From our perspective, it’s going international.  From theirs, it’s becoming local.  But either way you look at it, YouTube is launching targeted sites for Ireland, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Japan, Brazil, and France.