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Search is hot for US Hispanics

Recently I came across a statistic that I have been long waiting to see, it was published thanks to a recently released Advertising Age report named “HISPANIC FACT PACK: Annual Guide to Hispanic Advertising & Marketing 2005 Edition”. See following table: This table, which takes into account both English and Spanish speaking Hispanic users, demonstrates […]

MSN Search not bothered about Germany?

I manage to get back to my homeland (England) occasionally on business and now and then get across the pond to the USA for conferences etc. Each time I go there, I normally catch on the Hotel television an advertisement for MSN Search or billboard or see in newspapers advertisements for the now not so […]

58% are online in Germany

According to a recent study by ARD/ZDF Online, there are now 57.9% of Germans aged from 14 that are online (37.5 Million people). More pensioners and those unemployed have come online as broadband costs sink. The prognosis is for the upward trend to continue as more and more pensioners and unemployed find online access affordable. […]

Wi-Fi expansion hindered by new legislation in Italy

Wi-Fi access to the internet faces new challenges as anti-terrorism legislation imposes monitoring of public access points. Anonymous access to the internet is now prohibited by a new law requiring personal identification of users logging on to a public network such as those available in internet cafes. Traffic generated by users is to be logged […]

Google Sitemaps now multilingual

The Inside Google Sitemaps blog has just announced that Google Sitemaps’ user interface and documentation are now available in ten additional languages. The newly added languages are: Brazilian Portuguese Dutch French German Italian Korean Russian Simplified Chinese Spanish Traditional Chinese Sitemap submisssion is not limited by the language of the site, as always. Source: Inside […]