Russian search giant Yandex announced today it has expanded its European operations, opening a new sales office in Lucerne, Switzerland headed by Bernard Lukey, formerly CEO of one of the Russia’s largest online stores OZON.ru.

Today’s top news present a new alternative to Facebook for the Arabic-speaking users, the best
practices of the social media marketing in travel industry and why Foursquare’s co-founder Naveen Selvadurai has decided to leave the company.

Today’s news brings more information about SEO topics from the best practices for optimized <title> tags, to tips for effective long tail management and what you need to do in order to set up your Google Adwords Account. With the recently revised privacy policy, Google will create an accurate profile of your behaviour. See eight reasons to fear Google. Of course, we could not ignore the practices in social media: PeerIndex announced a brand new service ready to reward you for your social media influence and new numbers show that 82% of Russians use Social Networks.