Ask Jeeves to conquer Western Europe!
CEO of Ask Jeeves has revealed to Reuters plans to roll out the butler throughout western Europe. Following the IAC acquisition, Ask certainly has more capital at its disposal so it is not surprising to read speculation of a buy-out of Excite Italia from Tiscali, and Spanish expansion. Where next? The biggest single language web […]
Press release service opens Hungary outlet
GroupWeb.com has opened a new Hungary newswire service at www.hungarynewswire.com. The Budapest-based GroupWeb.com runs GroupWeb Emailwire.com.
58% of Israelis have an internet connection – only 10% via dial-up
The Jerusalem Post brings us the news that Israelis are well connected to the internet with 73% of homes having a computer and 58% an internet connection. The survey was carried out by the Tel Aviv University’s Netvision Institute for Internet Research. Heavy users were found to be generally aged under 29. 43% of internet […]
Belgian internet statistics show women overtaking men!
Women are now in the majority of web users in Belgium who access the internet at least once per month – up to the age of 34 that is! Overtall men still represent 55% of regular users and women 45%. The difference is in the age group between 15 – 34 where 1,120,000 women surf […]
Homegrown pay-per-click service arrives at Russian search engine
Russia’s leading homegrown search engine, Yandex, has launched a new pay-per-click service for Russia along the lines of the existing Google service. Thanks to Nick Wilsdon of e3internet which brought us this story – Yandex so far having issued no public comment – as soon as they do we will bring you more… According to […]
Kuwait to launch arabic search engine
The Kuwait News Agency – reported in the China-based online newspaper People’s Daily Online – is to launch an arabic language search engine to archive arabic sites on the web. The news was revealed by the Kuwaiti Director General of the country’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the world information forum in Cairo.