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 the country into “Länder”. In February, Yahoo launched in beta
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 of 89%.
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 the Director responsible for the Wanadoo portals. It should be
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 the figures for France (19%) and Italy (15%) where web
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 almost 3%.
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 not surprising they have chosen Spanish thanks to the growing
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 through broadband or DSL whilst 34% are using ISDN –
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 of the hotter locations in the battle for the top
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?