Portuguese who search for products of services online, spend in average €220. This is the main result of the first online buying behaviour study done by Google Portugal. In this study more than 2.000 people were asked for their online … Read More
Google Analytics is now available in Portuguese. Google Analytics is a widely used web analytics tool, provided for free by Google and already used by many webmasters in Portugal. In October, Google had already announced that Google Sites – a … Read More
Intel signed a deal with the Portuguese government in which they will provide experience and know how in the education market in order to put 500,000 small PCs in the hands of children with ages raging from 6 to 10 … Read More
The decision to allow anyone to register a .pt TLD has suffered yet another blow, as the authorization from the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology was postponed to an unknown future date. 6 months ago the request to liberalize … Read More
A tv ad campaign for ZON (a cable operator that offers a triple play service) began airing the passed week on the main Portuguese tv networks. The campaign isn’t very out of the ordinary, but for one thing: it mentions … Read More
It uses a black background and therefore offers great energy savings, because black uses less energy than white on computer monitors. Called Eco Find, it is interely Portuguese in the making, but it uses Google results.
In a global marketplace, companies struggle when it comes to providing the best content to local search engines, many times insisting in having a main .com website, that often does not appear in local product searches. There is no one … Read More
As was announced by several SEM blogs and media, Google launched internationally the navigational links in their homepage. This was a feature previously only available in Google.com (US). The order of the links in the Portuguese version of Google (Google.pt) … Read More
A recent study by a researcher at Brown University places Portugal in 7th place worldwide when it comes to best practices in e-government. This represents a 41 places rise over the result the country had obtained last year. The study … Read More
It’s called e-Justice Centre and it represents a joint project of the Justice Department and Aveiro’s University, which already has a strong presence in Second Life. The Justice Department’s press release explains that the centre aims to be a place … Read More
There are not a lot of alternatives if you want to do paid search advertising in Portugal. Basically you have two big players – Google Adwords with the lion’s share and Anúncios Sapo a very distant second. Now AEIOU, a … Read More
That will put Portugal in the top five best educational systems in the EU. Or at least that is the aim of Portugal’s Prime Minister José Socrates, for the next 3 years. Since taking charge of the Portuguese government, Socrates … Read More
Google Universal Search, the new “search model” recently launched by Google is starting to appear in the Portuguese SERPs (Google.pt). Until recently search results in Portuguese did not include anything more than simples websites. A couple weeks ago we noticed … Read More
Ydreams and Sapo announced a new product than allows users to access the Internet from home, without using a traditional computer system. The product is called “Sapohome” and it consists of a touch sensitive screen that allows access to information … Read More
RTP, the public TV broadcaster in Portugal has now in YouTube a partner to publish its videos online. RTP follows in the footsteps of other European TV broadcasters, like BBC and Deutsche Welle. In a dedicated YouTube area, users can … Read More
