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 512Kbps to 2Mbps – which will inevitably drive internet growth
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 its R & D director. The news release on the
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
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 users and Thailand has 6.5 million users representing 12% of
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 the countries are virtually the same size. But French registrations
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 a domain where a previous claim existed – such as
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 Europe for private internet access whereas business access ranks within
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 searching. This is claimed to be the the largest European
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 and September, 4 million people accessed the web at least
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 which are more frequent – the end result is a