Baidu is reportedly about to float increasing the speculation about Google’s position in China. Baidu is the leading Chinese search engine – and one which Google bought a 4% stake in during 2004. It is known that Google CEO – Eric Schmidt – flew to China last week and there
Yahoo is heading towards a Polish launch – at least that’s the conclusion of the Warsaw Business Journal which reports that Yahoo has launched Polish-language email accounts with 1 GB capacity. Currently, the Yahoo domain for Poland – pl.yahoo.com redirects to Yahoo’s UK site. Yahoo currently operates native-language portals in
Could the Spanish ‘Paginas Amarillas’ (Spanish Yellow Pages) be about to launch a new Spanish search engine? Lucía Bartolomé contacted ‘Multilingual Search’ regarding having spotted a site at www.noxtrum.com under development. Currently only indexing is taking place. Lucia says “The owner of the search engine is TPI (Telefónica Publicidad e
Big brand Opodo has moved into its ninth European market with the launch of www.opodo.es. Opodo is already well established in the UK, Germany and France – and already entered the Italian, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Finnish markets in early 2005 through two acuqisitions – Eviaggi and Travellink. Reported by
Seekport – the German-born search engine, which recently moved out of beta in the UK as reported in this blog, has launched a Spanish site for the Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician languages – just for Spain. The company’s strategy is to produce spam-free results by using human editors to
A fascinating article in Silicon.com tells of France trying to change its ‘image problem’ in the world of technology. Thus is revealed some interesting information about French culture – and France’s place in the world: France has a higher percentage of 20 to 29 year olds with qualifications in science
Multilingual search is to increase its coverage of European and world news by adding additional contributors to its roster, says Editor Andy Atkins-Krüger. “The news blog was launched almost 3 months ago and has come a long way in a short time. “Our aim was to bring not-in-English search matters
The Google blog has announced that the desktop search tool is now available in a wider range of languages comprising of French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese and Korean. Google Blog: Speaking of search
The Greek alphabet is to make its way into Greek domain names from July 4, the country’s telecommunications authorities EETT reported on Tuesday. The step is intended to increase the use of new technologies in Greece. At the present time, Greek web sites only use the Latin alphabet for domain
Belgian web connections are more expensive than those in the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, France, the UK, Germany and Italy, says a study by Belga’s Test Achat. Reported by Expatica