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 and the thinking is it would be easy to filter.
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 6 cents US. The key details are that the system
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. Results are listed in time order – as per the
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 the new engine lie the Austria food and agriculture ministeries,
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 co-operating and which it is only worth considering because of
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 with teeth and money behind it. Does it have a
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 just in beta. The search engine shows a preview of
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 users are heading to local sites as the web expands
Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July