Dutch Cowboys tell us that Zoeken.nl has followed Google’s lead in changing their logos to suit special days. Google changes its logo to reflect national days – but this means that their logo changes throughout the world. Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch, has suggested that Google should create local identities for
American car hire organisation, Thrifty.com has translated its site into French, German and Spanish – a sign that more of the larger American travel organisations are recognising the need to speak the language of their customers. Unfortunately, 75% of the page titles remain in English, as do the keywords and
The Austrian Internet Monitor (AIM) has published its 2005 first quarter figures for use of the internet in Austria with further figures confirming the continuing growth in use of the web. This latest report particuarly reinforces the point that, as the internet becomes more accessible, the degree of daily use
The very first .eu domain has gone live on the web today – but don’t get your cheque books out yet – this is the registration organisation itself – EURid at www.eurid.eu – which is responsible for managing the new European top level domain name. Nevertheless, a significant milestone has
A new search engine Ketady has been launched in France aiming to provide intelligent search results for users. The idea behind Ketady is that humans respond to humans – rather than machines giving approximated answers via algorithms. A registration is required – and searchers questions are referred to ‘experts’ who
Representatives of Google started a tour of the press in March to put forward the ‘Google Print’ plan – the project to digitally capture the world’s libraries online, reports the French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ in its online edition. The Google print project aims to digitise over 15 million books and
The Enigma Gfk research group in Wiesbaden has released figures which show that now more than one third of all Germans buy online. During the last year the number has grown by 15% to 23 million which is more than one third of the total population over 14 years. Of
Russian deputy communications and IT minister, Boris Antoniuk, says that Russia has more than 18 million internet users. This compares with 83 million mobile phone users. The minister was speaking at a roundtable on telecommunications and internet legislation hosted by the Federation Council. Interfax
A Dutch survey of 381 Dutch online consumers showed that they prefer to buy on the internet from Dutch organisations based on Dutch soil. However, this was not due to any national sentiment – 65% of them are happy to buy from non-Dutch organisations. The reason given for the preference
Reported by Austrian TV, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and Hungary have signed an agreement to take national libraries online – in something of a re-buff for Google’s idea to do the same. The idea was born of European Commission President, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso and EU Council President Jean-Claude