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Vertical search engine for agriculture launched in Austria

Agrarmarkt Austria, Berglandmilch, Lebensministerium, Raiffeisen Ware Austria and Telekom Austria have combined their forces to create a vertical search engine for Austrian agriculture. Called Agrarinfo, the search facility currently has 7,000 links to agricultural sites and 3000 user addresses. Behind the new engine lie the Austria food and agriculture ministeries, Austria’s leading telecoms company, a […]

Очередной успех Yandex на рынке PPC рекламы

В июне мы рассказывали о новой услуге Yandex Direct этой самой крупной российской поисковой системы. В то время как Yandex с большим отрывом доминирует на российском интернет рынке (его доля составляет здесь 52%), популярность Google среди российских пользователей растет – по последним данным у него 16% (в Июне показатель Google был на отметке 10%). Этот […]

Broadband access limitations on the horizion in UK and Italy

Tiscali UK has announced the introduction of a Fair User Policy which aims at preventing heavy downloads – Peer to Peer – during peek usage hours. In an effort to privilege VoIP, video streaming, and faster web surfing, the Fair User Policy will identify so called bandwidth hogs who are then warned three times before […]

Yandex keeps pace up in Russian PPC Market

Back in June we discussed the launch of Yandex Direct, from Russia’s largest Search Engine. While Yandex still dominates the market with a 52% share, Google has begun to catch up with recent figures showing 16% (a climb of 10% since June). This competition can not have escaped the attention of Yandex and they have […]

Speculation of a Google acquisition of UK’s Yellow Pages publisher – Yell

A US City firm has stated that speculation that Google may attempt to buy Yell in the UK is “plausible”. So a rumour then – whose validity is only really supported by the fact that Google and Yell are already co-operating and which it is only worth considering because of its sheer strategic significance. If […]