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Leit.is opens search.is

Leit.is opens search.is specially for foreign markets. This is a crawler based engine writen in the US by a partly owned Icelandic company, MUNAX LLC.

The Icelandic search engine landscape

Nordic eMarketing has been doing a research on search engine usage in Iceland. Beside the International major players like Google, Yahoo and MSN there are couple of regional engines. Final results for this research will be published later this year but preliminary outcome tells us that Leit.is is leading when

Almost nine out of ten Icelanders using the Internet

Almost nine out of ten Icelanders aged from 14 to 74 are using the Internet. Most of the use it daily and 31% has used the Internet to shop online. 85% of those accessing the Internet are using high speed connections.

Europe's "Most Digital" Market is the UK

Well there we have it, Digital Britain rules and the empire is back to it’s former glory. Just released research from Informa Telecoms & Media puts UK as number one in digital content consumption among all the markets of Western Europe. Way ahead the number two position, Finland, and Italy,

Baidu first to arrive

Is Baidu expanding? This is the third time in row that the spider from Baidu is the first to arrive on sites that I am marketing. Baiduspider+(+http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.htm). Seeing that the search engine has been around for some time and I have not seen its sipder so early on that might

Nokia shows off a new phone in Iceland

70 reporters from around the world witnessed the introduction of the 5500 Sport phone a new type of phone specially made for active people. Nokia has through the years used Iceland as a test market for phones and mobile phone solutions. The 5500 Sport Phone is very shock resistant and

Spurl.net bought by Ja.is the Iceland Yellow Book

Spurl.net, a Iceland based search engine company, was bought by Ja.is. Ja (means yes in Icelandic) owns and publishes both the online and the offline national telephone book and by this is most likely moving on the local search engine market.

Whats up with Google?

I was running a reverse IP check to see how many and what sites where hosted at the same server/IP as my client. While I was doing that I desited to check how Google was storing their sites, how many IP addresses they where using etc. – This is part

GSM, GPRS and internet connection at the Icelandic glaciers

Travellers can now connect to the internet, talk on GSMs and use GPRS whilst on the glaciers, tried and tested on the top of Snaefellsjokull glacier the GSM connection was fine (Snaefellsjokull glacier is where the Jules Verns story Journey to the center of the Universe starts). This is done

New locally written Icelandic search engine on it's way?

I stumbled on a new creation of Spurl Ltd, an Iceland-based search engine company. The URL is www.zniff.com and it obviously is still in a testing phase. They claim that you search the entire Web or 8 million Icelandic pages. If they crawled the entire web or are buying those