It is really interesting to see how Google makes modification to its logo in order to mark a special event. Periodically, Google doodles celebrate the birthdays, cultural figures or national holidays around the world. The story of the doodles starts in 1998 when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin played with the logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in Nevada.

It looks like Google intends to invest heavily in the South Korean Internet market in the coming months. It is reported that Google is highly interested in the acquisition of South Korea's second-largest search engine Daum and developing partnerships with some of the world's leading technology firms based in Korea.

Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt visited South Korea last week to speak with various technology companies including Samsung, LG and Korean telecoms operators SK Telecom and KT as well as representatives from the two largest local search engines Naver and Daum.

This link was sent to me recently by an SEO contact of mine.

The big three influencing factors in the Google quality score calculation have always been Landing Page Quality, Keyword Relevance (to an adgroups ad's, and matching the keyword / ads to the search term), and Keyword / Display URL / Account CTR. It has long been supposed that CTR was by far the most dominant factor, but Google has recently announced that they are to be placing increased weight on Landing Page Quality, and Keyword Relevance.

Google's Panda update has now launched around the world in all but three languages. Here's a look at some new statistics showing which websites in Germany, France, and Austria were hit and rewarded as a result of the expanded Panda rollout and how things have changed in the Austrian, French and German SEO environment.

Included in this months Newsletter

• Multilingual SEO Tips: Are You Choosing the Right Keyword for your Japanese SEO?
• International SEO News: Google Panda Update Hits Europe
• International Social Media Factsheet: Latin America
• Russian Online News: Internet Companies Expand in to Russia