Aussie search engine Sensis adds Click to call
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 edge technology,” said Alex Parsons, Group Manager sensis.com.au. “We’re committed to delivering innovative advertising solutions […]
MSN expands multilingual search capabilities in Asia
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 is the fastest-growing online market in the world. It’s shaping up as the most important […]
Iceland boasts a new search engine
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 with search engine indexing. Google has actually translated their GUI into Icelandic but that has […]
Rambler launches new online shopping portal in Russia
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 Media, commented: “The market for electronic shopping is developing at a very fast pace and […]
Ask Yahoo!
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 are first answered by google researchers and you need to pay minimum 2.50$ while Yahoo […]
Baidu high on censorship
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 details Baidu is “a search engine that is weak on piracy and strong on censorship. […]