Dutch consumers prefer to buy online from Dutch sites
A Dutch survey of 381 Dutch online consumers showed that they prefer to buy on the internet from Dutch organisations based on Dutch soil. However, this was not due to any national sentiment – 65% of them are happy to buy from non-Dutch organisations. The reason given for the preference was mainly a lack of […]
6 countries sign agreement to take European libraries online.
Reported by Austrian TV, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and Hungary have signed an agreement to take national libraries online – in something of a re-buff for Google’s idea to do the same. The idea was born of European Commission President, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso and EU Council President Jean-Claude Juncker. Google’s US project encompasses […]
France and Germany combine to create European search engine?
European concern over the power and influence of the American search engines is well known. Now Jacques Chirac has announced that one of the new joint projects which the German and French governments will co-operate on, is the creation of a new European search engine. They’re trying to take a leaf out of Google’s book […]