Just four months after its redesign ByIndia.com has been recognised as the most used Indian search engine. Alexa noted a 700% increase in traffic since the redesign which incorporated many web 2.0 styles. To continue the growth and viral impact … Read More
According to a report by Adotas, Rakuten – one of the largest Japanese online malls – plans to expand into the United Staes, Europe and China. The company already owns US affiliate portal LinkShare which should help them in their … Read More
The Study Concluded that the typical British computer user spends just over 160 minutes on the internet every day, compared with 148 minutes watching TV – that’s about 41 days spent online every year. Apart from sleeping and working this … Read More
Google and China Mobile announced a joint venture in setting up an online search technology for China Mobile, a carrier with roughly 300 million subscribers. The new services are expected to be launched early this year. The partnership will include … Read More
São Paulo State Superior Court through its PR office said today that the decision is not to take YouTube off the air in Brazil, but only filter brazilian users to avoid the exhibition of “Cicarelli’s sex tape”. Of course, defense … Read More
According to a recent BBC online News article, online sales in the UK were up 50% this holiday season. The boost has meant that 10%of every purchasing GPB spent came from purchases on the Web. Next, a High Street retailer … Read More
Via the SIGIR FORUM comes this 2006 SIGIR Report that examines current issues and the future of multilingual information access (MLIA) . The report does a critical review of The Quaero Project and similar initiatives. Six sessions and multilingual participants … Read More
Yes, more problems for Google in Brazil: last year a paparazzi filmed Daniela Cicarelli, Brazilian model and former Ronaldo (Brazilian football star) wife, during a torrid love scene in Ibiza. A Brazilian Justice ruled that all websites must take the … Read More
Last year has been quite a busy one for the Portuguese stock market, mainly because of the takeover bid of Sonaecom over PT Telecom, the Portuguese main Telecom operator. In a very small market like Portugal this may have impredicable … Read More
“25 editors around the globe at the beginning of 2007 – 50 by the beginning of 2008!” As we start 2007, I reflect on a superb year for Webcertain Blog where we have broken new ground and new territories around … Read More
The Business Standard of India reported that Yahoo! was opening a research lab in Bangalore, India. Yahoo is also starting their “Big Thinkers” lectures in India in January 2007.
According to Analysys International, an Internet based provider of business information, the China search engine market will see a compound annual growth of more than 30% from 2006 to 2010 based on its recently released report “China Search Engine Market … Read More
Yahoo! China sued Qihoo back in late September of this year for unfair competition. The lawsuit claimed that Qihoo software, known as “360safe”, prompts users to de-install the Yahoo! Toolbar. The prompt made users believe that the toolbar was “malware”, … Read More
The Australian Federal Court ruled against a web site that provided links to illegal download sites and the ISP that provided hosting for the site. The Associated Press reported the court’s ruling could have impact on search engines like Google, … Read More
A typical middle-sized company in Portugal has a website on the Internet, 85% of big companies do. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the website has probably never been updated since 1998, it’s in flash, you can’t … Read More
