Become's Japanese version
The shopping focused search site, Become.com, has opened its Japanese beta version “Become.co.jp” on the 10th. The site users can search the information such as products, reviews, and EC site comparisons in Japanese.
New "Google mini" released in Japan
On 12th, Google announced the release of new “Google mini” in Lego-ish simple design, the search appliance for mid to small companies. Google picked Japan as the first market for the new “Google mini”, and this version is 100% localized for Japanese language.
Convera Adds multilingual search capabilities to excalibur
According to Datamonitor, Convera is adding multilingual search capabilities to their technology. Essentially they are using Paris-based Temis’s XeLDA engine into Convera’s Excalibur platform, an indexing and categorization technology. This will include support to the following languages: French German Spanish Russian Integrating both technologies makes sense to me. Excalibur is an enterprise indexing technology that […]
Google powers 75% of UK searches, says Hitwise
Latest figures from Hitwise gives Google 74.8% of all UK internet searches in March. The top four search engines were responsible for 95.7% of all UK internet searches in the period. Specifically Hitwise says: MSN.co.uk and MSN.com combined leads the following crowd with 7.8%. Yahoo (UK and Ireland) powered a grand total of 7.5% – […]
Free Marketing Guide to China Part 2
A quick reminder to all of you working in the Chinese Market, MarketingSherpa has released the second part of their free two part report on the subject (part 1 covered here) It focuses on mobile marketing, search marketing, and Internet ads. Special Report Part II: Internet Marketing in China — 100 Million Chinese Online & […]
OECD Broadband Statistics, December 2005 – ADSL2 in Italy
The number of broadband subscriptions throughout the OECD continued to increase in 2005 on the rise from 136 million in June 2005 to 158 million by the end of the same year. Broadband rate of growth during the same period was steady at 15% and the average number of subscribers was 13.6 per 100 inhabitants. […]