Volker Gläser, search director for Yahoo Deutschland, says that local search is more significant in Germany than the UK or France sometimes reaching levels as high as 30% of all searches. He puts this down largely to the division of … Read More
Infospace – a search engine which presents the results of others mixed depending on the type of phrase searched for – has seen a 41% increase in unique visitors in its last financial year 2004 and a growth in turnover … Read More
Wanadoo has announced a pay per click system for contextual sponsored links on Wanadoo and Mappy which has been nicknamed ‘Wanadooclic”. The links will be bought via a bidding system. The announcement was made by Luc Tran Thang who is … Read More
Nielsen//NetRatings global netview analysis shows significant year-on-year increases in the number of hours per month spent online in all European countries monitored. Outside Europe, Hong Hong achieved the highest increase of 25% – whilst the US dropped. Most impressive are … Read More
According to Nielsen//NetRatings, active home use of the internet increased quite dramatically in the UK in February2005 to 11% when compared with November 2004 – France and Germany saw smaller increases of 1.6% and 1.2% respectively whilst Sweden dropped by … Read More
Ask Jeeves has broadened its multilingual offering by launching a new Spanish index – this will give the organisation – currently negotiating its own acquisition by IAC corporation – to compete more effectively with Google, Yahoo, MSN worldwide. It is … Read More
According to German survey organisation Wahlen Online, the number of internet users at home has grown to 61% in the last quarter – a relatively small increase over the previous quarter. Around 34% of the survey respondents access the internet … Read More
According to figures from Audiweb by Nielsen//NetRatings, Google.it has the greatest reach in Italy of work and home users reaching 57.3%, Libero.it is second at 49.5%, Virgilio.it is third with 48.3% and MSN.it fourth with 36.2%. This makes Italy once … Read More
Of course, it’s the first of April and the day of the ‘Gros poissons’ or April fool in France. Not surprising then that Abondance has announced a new TV channel called Google TV. Could it really happen?
