The far east still heads the league table of most broadband connected countries with South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan all in the top 6. The far east will overtake North America and Europe in the next few years for ‘connected households’, reports eMarketer. Intriguingly Canada and four European
Mr. Olu, the Will Smith of search engines, has created a new search engine for the world – Big Clique – in fact covering 17 languages from day one an amazingly ambitious undertaking! Big Clique claims to offer ‘Just search…’ and nothing else. The choice of languages is intriguing comprising
BelSoc.org has launched a social search engine in the French language in Belgium focusing principally on professionals in the ‘social-medical’ sector. Moteur Social claims to only feature pages from Belgium, in the social fields and principally in French language. More of a directory than algorithmic search engine, the intriguing thing
China is a large country. So even a small percentage of web users produces a big number – 98.8 million users according to an official in the Ministry of Information. Not surprising then that the leading US web-based businesses are falling over themselves to get into the Chinese market. Just
The German search engine Seekport has moved its UK search engine out of Beta. Seekport launched in the UK in December and claims to offer more UK-oriented results – partly thanks to a team of editors who quality check the engine’s results. Testing of the algorithm suggests that it operates
ImiTiki – the search marketing conference brand which normally runs conferences in Paris, is to run a seminar for the first time in Lyon sponsored by Google. The seminar will be on the 16th of June with the morning focusing on organic search techniques and the afternoon on Google’s adwords.
The Saudi-based Dar Al Riyadh Holding Group has launched a new beta version English-speaking search engine built by Tajseed Solutions. New english-speaking Arabic search engine launched in beta Deepy has a look of Microsoft (that search button…?) and the now standard Google format. However, it has a very neat spelling
The official statistics body of the European Union – known as Eurostat – announced its 30 nation report on internet usage throughout Europe on Friday. Report author Morag Ottens, concludes “In most countries internet penetration has reached saturation point in large enterprises” – he also found that 48% of large
Web.de signed up to an acquistion by United Internet on Friday for 200 million Euros and a 5.8% shareholding in United Internet. The deal can’t go ahead until it’s been approved by the German monopolies office – it also still requires the approval of the Web.de annual general meeting. Report
For some months a group of search marketers around Europe have been drafting a constitution and plans for an association to represent search marketers. Following the success of the SMA-UK, Mikkel deMib Svendsen and Andy Atkins-Krüger have been working with Sante Achille from Italy, Ben van den Bergh from the