The Internet Marketing and conference Expo opens this morning in Reykjavik, Iceland. International speakers will provide information on search marketing with a European focus and point of view.
At the first Internet Governance Forum in Athens, Google is expected to defend it’s presence in China saying that it does more good than harm since it gets more information to more people. Delegates from China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Syria, … Read More
Sun Zhongpeng, a member of the China Anti-Hooligan Software Alliance, is suing Zhongsou.com which claims to be the world’s largest Chinese language search engine. The law suit was heard in the People’s Court in Beijing’s Haidian District on October 28th. … Read More
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
On October 23rd, Net Ratings put out the top 10 property ranking sites in Japan for the month of September 2006. According to their research, Google made the top 10 ranking for the first time in history with more than … Read More
Rambler [LSE: RMG] has decided to sell their TV business ‘Rambler TV’ to Osgora Productions Ltd, a 100 pct subsidiary of Prof-Media, a Russian media holding company for US$23. According to their press release this will allow them to “concentrate … Read More
Seems the Japanese are pushing copyright violations against YouTube in an effort to have them pull thousands of videos from the site. According to an article in Adotas, YouTube removed about 30,000 videos at the request of the the Japan … Read More
On the Picnic event I spoke to Nils Rooijmans who was enthusiastic about the new search core search engine ilse has been using. Ilse Media took a licence on the French search technology Exalead to give better search results orientated … Read More
Google’s third quarter results show a growth year on year of 70% – a slower rate than the virtual doubling we have seen in the past, however, from a larger base so a still considerable increase in activity. Google is … Read More
Hitwise is predicting that visits to UK online retail sites will see a growth of 8% this Christmas over last. This is a rate of growth fast than last year and search engines will account for 35% of visits with … Read More
Foxnews reports that an organisation known as “DotAsia Organization Ltd” has had its application to run domain names in asian languages under the top level domain ‘.asia’ approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The domains will … Read More
The e-media institue provides a list of leading broadband providers in Europe, ranked by total number of subscribers as of June 2006
A new poll by the National Public Opinion centre has concluded that 25% of Russians now use the internet. This is a significant increase on the 19% figure taken 6 months ago. 1/5th of internet users visit forums, watch films … Read More
Ratings were released on the internet usage of Italians for September 2006. The report indicates a substantial stability in the number of online users with a significant increase in the amount of time spent online. The number of users increased … Read More
An article in the TimesOnline suggested the EU was trying to start requiring video bloggers to be regualted just like any other broadcast media. How they could police this will be the challenge. If the US cannot stop gambling sites … Read More
