Recent studies have shown that in Germany Google leads with a market share of 88.5% (I though Google had a foothold in the UK with around 79%). Yahoo has just over 3%, followed by the only local engine, ISP T-Online … Read More
A report by PhoCusWright Inc says that the European market on average will hit 25% of transactions carried out online during 2007 – this figure was achieved in the US in 2004. There are, however some key differences in European … Read More
Jaap Favier of Forrester ended his keynote speech to the first Hamburg AdTech by saying that, after all the research he’s done, Second Life will become the new Google.
Europe’s largest telecoms operators – with one American firm – are planning to launch a mobile phone search engine to rival Google and Yahoo. The companies concerned include Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and US firm Cingular. Combined, they have a user base of 600 million people – with some 20% in the UK expected to have broadband speed mobile phone access by the end of 2007.
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Heise.de brings us the news (in German) that the German Government will be moving away from co-operation with the French over the search engine research project ‘Quaero’ even creating their own new project with a new name ‘Theseus’. The announcement … Read More
The Google monster came under concerted attack from Francois Bourdoncle, CEO and founder of France-based search engine Exalead in the opening keynote of Search Engine Strategies Paris. The press in particular should be worried about becoming sub-contractors of Google, he … Read More
A recent
eMarketer reports on Internet access via mobile devices. The study was conducted in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, and the US. while 29% of European Internet users regularly access the Internet from their mobile phones, only 19% of US users … Read More
Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion reports on the Edelman and Technorati study of the most influential blogs in German, French and Italian. Further information will be available during a presentation later this week in Milano where the results will be presented … Read More
Relevant traffic is a big player in Sweden with a focus on selling clicks from the search engine listings. Kinnevik , a big investement company has bought 36% of the stocks for 28 million Swedish kronors and is hoping to … Read More
Emarketer reports Ecommerce trends for the next few years, associating robust growth in online sales to the increase of DSL lines installed both at home and at work. The report identifies the UK as the most “mature” of all European … Read More
A recent study provides information on the development of social networks and their impact on Internt traffic distribution worldwide … … Read More
Accoona has launched its search engine into the European zone – in fact western Europe. The search engine – which is on a .eu at www.accoona.eu searches by language – rather than country. Currently, the EU version runs in English, … Read More
TAGora is a Research Project funded by the European Union. The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportunities offered by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social interaction and social networks. The project will develop along several lines: A systematic … Read More
Abondance tells us that the Agence pour l’innovation industrielle (Industrial Innovation Agency) gave an update this week on progress with regard to 6 of its projects including the European search engine project ‘Quaero’. The project has a budget of 250 … Read More
