Included in this Months Newsletter:

• We are The Face Of Global Search – OBAN Search Team introduction
• Baidu Update 2011
• Google Social Search Now Available Worldwide
• Twitter now in Brazilian Portuguese
• OBAN's recommendation on international Search Engines: Yandex Snippets
• Socialise with the world! The OBAN Update on Global Social Media

Despite only one third of 30 million Venezuelans being active internet users, the country has ranked 3rd in the list of the top Tweeting countries in the world, a Comscore report has announced (August 2010). Following Indonesia and Brazil, Twitter has a 19.0% reach in Venezuela. Latin America experienced the biggest growth in Twitter usage, growing 305% since 2009.

A ComScore report announced yesterday the worldwide growth of  Twitter, and there were some very interesting discoveries.

Twitter audience has more than doubled in the past year, with 93 million people visiting the site in June 2010 (excluding visits via Twitter applications), 109% more than in 2009. The site experienced strong growth across all regions.

Who knew that Indonesians were such an active online crowd? The country, which boasts the world's fourth-largest population (at 230 million people), is the third biggest Facebook-using nation in the world, and has the most Facebook and Twitter users in Asia.

With the popularity of other, China-based search engines set to rise thanks Google’s threat to close down their Google.cn site, in turn freeing up the market, businesses need to optimise their site to suit their search processes. However, simple translation of websites will not suffice. Taking an example from Oban’s area of business, the phrase ‘to Twitter’ translates to ‘织围脖’’ – ‘to knit yourself a scarf’ in English. Localised research needs to be carried out in order to ensure UK businesses can successfully tap into the expanding Chinese market. Here are a few pointers on how to improve SEO in China: