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"Internet" still equivalent to "Entertainment" for Bulgarians

The new edition of E-Bulgaria report (published annually by Vitosha Research) contains some interesting insights about Internet penetration in Bulgaria and how Bulgarians use the technology. Even though the research predicts over 33% Internet penetration in January 2007, things are not looking much better for people who seek to make

Bulgarian online advertising market jumped 81% in 2005

Bulgarian internet advertising market made a huge step forward by increasing its revenues with 81% last year. Recent market studies show rise in online advertising spending from 3.1 million leva (approx. 1.9 million USD) to over 5.6 million leva (approx. 3.42 million USD). The results were announced on a press

The battle for wireless internet in Bulgaria

A little battle took place today on an auction for the Bulgarian national A-class Wireless Network licence. All top players in the Bulgarian communications industry were there bidding for 2 licences which allow the building of national-wide wireless network in the 21 MHz frequency. “Bulgaria Telecom”, the former monopoly in

Bulgarian search engines – where are they?

Bulgarian internet is getting bigger and mature. Many statistics prove that fact. Millions of web users are now online. Thounsand and hundreds of thousands of websites are serving their needs. Still, Bulgarian search engines are nowhere to be seen on the scene…. Currently there are two search engines with their

Google Sitemaps now multilingual

The Inside Google Sitemaps blog has just announced that Google Sitemaps’ user interface and documentation are now available in ten additional languages. The newly added languages are: Brazilian Portuguese Dutch French German Italian Korean Russian Simplified Chinese Spanish Traditional Chinese Sitemap submisssion is not limited by the language of the

Number of Bulgarian .bg domains growing slowly

The Bulgarian country Top Level Domain (TLD) ‘bg’ is registering slow growth in number of active domains in 2005. At the end of August 2005 the number of registered ‘bg’ TLDs is only 4092. The growth rate now is a couple domains per day, which is slow, compared to other

Bulgarian internet population now exceeds 1.8 million

The Bulgarian internet population now reaches 1 800 000 people who account for 24% of the country’s population. The share of internet users has increased by some 50% since last year and the trend continues, fueled by ISPs who now offer faster and cheaper internet access. 2005 marks the shift