Het Financieele Dagblad, the leading financial newspaper in the Netherlands, reports that a study by CoolBranding has given Google top spot for being not only the leading site in the Netherlands – but also the ‘strongest’ brand. Second was Ipod followed by Nike, Nokia and BMW. Microsoft was the winner
Heavier users of the internet are switching to Firefox in greater numbers in the UK, says Nielsen//NetRatings. According to their latest report, by September 2006 almost 12% of UK users had adopted Firefox. Whilst for web marketing campaigns, 12% isn’t a huge number it still cannot be ignored. Which retailer
Heise.de brings us the news (in German) that the German Government will be moving away from co-operation with the French over the search engine research project ‘Quaero’ even creating their own new project with a new name ‘Theseus’. The announcement came from Germany’s Economics minister, Hartmut Schauerte, at an IT
Leading Indian telco, Bharti Airtel has announced a strategic partnership with Google to offer mobile search in India. Google will incorporate mobile ads through its Adwords platform. The President of Bharti Airtel Ltd explains, “In India, mobile is fast outgrowing the growth of PCs. Mobile users outnumber PC users in
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, ICANN Chief Executive Paul Twomey has complained of the organisation coming under ‘signficant politicial pressure’ at a recent UN Athens conference to allow non-Latin standard characters to be used in domain names. This, he says, could “Break the whole internet”. Australian Twomey, was speaking
The Google monster came under concerted attack from Francois Bourdoncle, CEO and founder of France-based search engine Exalead in the opening keynote of Search Engine Strategies Paris. The press in particular should be worried about becoming sub-contractors of Google, he said. Whilst at present Google News brings plenty of traffic
Google’s third quarter results show a growth year on year of 70% – a slower rate than the virtual doubling we have seen in the past, however, from a larger base so a still considerable increase in activity. Google is pleased with its progress outside the US – the share
Hitwise is predicting that visits to UK online retail sites will see a growth of 8% this Christmas over last. This is a rate of growth fast than last year and search engines will account for 35% of visits with Google and Yahoo leading the fray. Hitwise has also launched
Foxnews reports that an organisation known as “DotAsia Organization Ltd” has had its application to run domain names in asian languages under the top level domain ‘.asia’ approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The domains will cover China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and other asian countries.
In a conversation with Multilingual Search, Guy Phillipson, Chief Executive of the IABUK commented that paid search should exceed £1 billion by the end of 2006 in the UK. Guy says, “Search is the perfect form of persuasion marketing and is rapidly becoming the largest slice of the pie in