UK Plus reports that recent campaigns offering broadband for free in the UK (alongside telephone calls) has resulted in the worst quarter the industry has known in recent times – just 730,000 lines were added in the most recent quarter. … Read More
Accoona has launched its search engine into the European zone – in fact western Europe. The search engine – which is on a .eu at www.accoona.eu searches by language – rather than country. Currently, the EU version runs in English, … Read More
Abondance tells us that the Agence pour l’innovation industrielle (Industrial Innovation Agency) gave an update this week on progress with regard to 6 of its projects including the European search engine project ‘Quaero’. The project has a budget of 250 … Read More
Reed Elsevier has recently launched a search engine aimed at the business market in The Netherlands. Zibbsearch.nl is running on hundreds of servers in the United States and aims to conquer 20 percent of the business search market in The … Read More
None other than Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has been reported by Silicon India as saying that India will be the internet’s biggest market in 5 – 10 years. He also believes that Hindi, not Hispanic, could become one of the … Read More
Faster internet connection speeds look like they’re going to arrive in Saudi Arabia – according to Arab News – and this is to be achieved through electrical wall sockets. This method is expected to take the Saudi broadband speeds from … Read More
Multilingual Search doesn’t normally report on news from search marketing agencies – but the news that Danish search marketing firm Notabene is to float on the Danish stock exchange is somewhat close to home: Rasmus Sørensen of Multilingual Search is … Read More
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 … Read More
The Jakarta Post reports that internet access in Indonesia lags behind other countries with just 6.6% of the population online – but that’s a healthy 16 million audience. Neighbouring Malaysia is reported at 33% of the population and 8 million … Read More
French registrations of .EU domains show a clear rejection of the name by the French. After 24 hours, the French have only registered one fifth the number of domains (48,000) that the British have registered (260,000) – even though proportionately … Read More
The BBC reports on the opening of the doors of EurID to allcomers trying to register one of the valuable .EU domains – now on a first come first served basis. Already 300,000 have used the sunrise period to register … Read More
Austria has fallen back in terms of home-based internet access reports Futurezone – although Austrian-based businesses still have access levels to match the top countries in the world. European statistics published on Thursday shows that Austria ranks only 10th in … Read More
A fascinating cross-lingual scientific search engine called Dandelon.com – a collaborative project between the university libraries of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and AGI – information management consultants, together with GBV – has reached a landmark 100,000 books scanned and prepared for … Read More
According to the Swiss Media Research and Studies organisation (la société Recherches et études des médias publicitaires (REMP)) reported by Edicom, the number of web users in Switzerland now exceeds 4 million representing around 60% of the population. Between April … Read More
Pandia reports on a new censorship comparison tool developed by researchers at Indiana University. The tool compares the preeminance of words featured in the top ten results of Yahoo or Google by displaying words graphically giving weight to those terms … Read More
