Another great post from ilovecharts.com. A self-explanatory graph is worth thousands of words sometimes.

Just a few years ago Blockbuster Spanish subsidiary announced it was going to shut down all of his Spanish rental shop, due to piracy and eventually a clear change in customer’s behavior. A few days ago the company finally announced its bankruptcy. The company’s lost more than a billion dollars in the past two years. However its a well-defined plan aiming to change the company itself into something more similar to Netflix, hence focusing on online rental services. Bussiness is much like survival of the fittest and every company has to adapt an overcome in order to survive. It will be quite unlikely to see the Blockbuster brand totally disappear though, due to studios backing it up in fear of Netflix to take over the market.

On a side-note, this will certainly mean a clear spike in every US unemployment report for the next year or two, due to the huge amount of people working at Blockbuster’s shops.

Get a do-follow link for free!

Citiservi is a new local search engine. It’s an independent project which aims to keep in touch service providers and businesses in Spain.

You can add your own business with phisical address, phone numbers and all details and get a free do-follow link on a personal page.

However its Pagerank is still pretty low but I’m confident it will grow quickly in a short time. Add it to your bookmark list and do not forget about it when it comes to plan the next link building strategy.

We often think Google power it’s world wide recognized.

However this might be true in western countries, while big G still has to make is way to the top in countries like Russia or even japan.

In order to increase daily page views, Google added a new search feature on his japanese homepage callesd “hot keywords“. Basically it’s a short list of the most searched terms of the day.

And it’s not over yet.

…to overcome his traffic handicap towards , Google is trying to generate some artificial buzz through a pay-per-post campaign called CyberBuzz

It’s kind of sad. Google has never relied on such means to get traffic and seduce users. On the other hand, they’ll have to eventually face the fact that search engine preferences are also biased by cultural and linguistics factors, rather than marketing plans.