China is regularly in the news these days as the Chinese market hots up and becomes more search engine competitive – but if you’re in China you may not see that news, following new regulations announced and implemented today, reports … Read More
An interesting story has been travelling around the media in Europe this week as Baidu – the leading Chinese search engine – has defended itself from major music labels concerning music downloading. Baidu has strongly protested its innocence claiming that … Read More
Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. “We all know that … Read More
The IABC (Internet Advertising Bureau of Canada) reports that online advertising in Canada in 2005 is on track to show a growth of 43% over 2004. Of the 364 million Canadian dollars measured in 2004, a 30% share was dedicated … Read More
The number of e-commerce dealers in China now exceeds 20 million – according to the China Electronic Commerce Association. 2005 is the 10th year since e-commerce began in China. 20 million traders means that there are more trading in China … Read More
The European Parliament has been debating how to protect children on the internet and has come up with the idea of a specific domain for children – .kid – reports Reuters. The domain would be monitored by an independent authority … Read More
MSN has opened the doors of its new AdCenter in Singapore – its long awaited move into the pay per click market – reports Abondance. The minimum cost per click has been set at 10 cents in Singapore Dollars or … Read More
A new RSS search engine in Dutch has been launched by Ilse.nl the second most important search engine in the Netherlands. Called Feedo.nl, the new search engine has indexed feeds from 2000 Dutch news sites and the most popular blogs. … Read More
Agrarmarkt Austria, Berglandmilch, Lebensministerium, Raiffeisen Ware Austria and Telekom Austria have combined their forces to create a vertical search engine for Austrian agriculture. Called Agrarinfo, the search facility currently has 7,000 links to agricultural sites and 3000 user addresses. Behind … Read More
Proximedia of Belgium is predicting that 25% of Belgian companies are likely to switch to using a .be domain name. European businesses abuzz over ‘.eu’ domain names – INQ7.net
A US City firm has stated that speculation that Google may attempt to buy Yell in the UK is “plausible”. So a rumour then – whose validity is only really supported by the fact that Google and Yell are already … Read More
French President, Jacques Chirac has reinforced the development of a eurocentric search engine, baptised ‘Quaero’ from the Latin, by committing France’s new innovation agency to developing a Franco-German search engine to compete with the ‘Americans’. This makes the development one … Read More
The Times Online reports that a British firm is creating a new search engine to compete with Google. Previewseek has launched a beta search engine which claims to offer the most advanced search technology in the world – albeit currently … Read More
Digital Media Asia relays a report that cross border internet traffic actually slowed in 2005. The fastest areas of growth were Asia and Latin America. As the world’s web activity continues apace – the only conclusion is that more web … Read More
Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July … Read More
