Seems the Japanese government wants the people of Japan to have its own search engine. One developed by the Japanese for the Japanese to counter the presence of Google Japan, Yahoo! Japan and others.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Matsushita, Tokyo University and others to jointly develop the image search technology The electric, the communication and the media industry’s major companies, such as Matsushita Electric, NTT, and NHK, will jointly develop the … Read More
AzerNews reports that there are now 7,000 websites registered in Azerbaijan in a wide variety of languages. 3,000 are in the Azeri language, 830 in Turkish, 1,300 in English and 1,600 in Russian. A good example of the linguistic complexity … Read More
NTT Resonant (www.nttr.co.jp) has started the “Speech Assisted Search” text at goo lab (http://labs.goo.ne.jp). With this technology, a mobile user can speak the search word instead of typing it. In order to use this service, a user would access the … Read More
The key players in Internet auction industry and intellectual property right organizations have instituted a new organization in Japan. This organization will share the problems and the information related to the intellectual property right violation on the Internet, and take … Read More
Yahoo! China will provide free websites for small and medium enterprises (SME’s) in a move to jumpstart e-commerce in China. It will also increase Yahoo! China’s base of businesses for advertising opportunities. With more than 23 million SMEs in China, … Read More
Yandex, the Russian mega-portal, announced today the release of their desktop search software; Yandex Personal Search The software can be downloaded from their site free of charge and runs on Windows 98, 2000, XP and 2003. It allows textual searching … Read More
The popularity of Click to Call is gaining global support as Sensis anounced an offering for Push to Talk using Estara technology. Their press release states: “Sensis is very excited to offer Australia’s first ‘Click to Call’ solution, a leading … Read More
MSN has licensed Basis Technology’s Rosette(R) language analyzers for Chinese and Japanese to assist with their efforts in the Asian search market. Microsoft has been using the Rosette Linguistic Platform since they launched MSN Search in late 2004. %GC_SERVICE=1211% “Asia … Read More
Iceland’s most visited online medium just launched a new search engine that understands Icelandic. Thanks to our unique letters like the funky “d” and a letter that looks like “b” but with a twist, we have been having minor prolems … Read More
Rambler, the popular Russian search engine, has announced today the launch of their new shopping portal; Rambler Hypermarket. The project was launched in cooperation with eHouse Holding, a leader in the Russian internet shopping market. Irina Gofman, CEO of Rambler … Read More
Yahoo has just announced Yahoo! Answers (Beta). “Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people.” In the beginning there was Ask Jeeves. And then Google Answers.. The difference between Google Answers is, at Google your questions … Read More
According to a recent article in The Guardian, Chinese search engine Baidu founder, Robin Li, may have shown he can go toe to toe with Google in China, but it also indicates he is heavy on censorship. As the article … Read More
The long awaited .eu domain name opened today for applications. The ‘sunrise’ period will run from 7th of December to 7th April 2006 to allow those with prior claim to secure their domains before they are made available on a … Read More
Korea came 13th in an annual survey of brand value of countries, the Institute for Industrial Policy Studies said yesterday. The government-affiliated think tank also said Samsung retained the number1 position in brand value among Korean companies. For internet portals, … Read More
