The fact that I’ve been silent for some time, doesn’t mean that the Spanish internet isn’t churning up stories. In fact, there are quiet a few. I’ll start with the latest and for many one of the most impressive. If … Read More
Ask.com admits that they’re behind the nifty guerrilla marketing campaign launched to promote search alternatives, in effect to sway users away from Google. After all, Google the market leader by far. The url at the bottom of the advertisement is … Read More
Spain’s leading online portal and telecom, Ya.com has launched YaTV and YaShoot in order to compete with YouTube on a local level, here in Spain. Both of the Web 2.0 services use Ya.com’s proprietary tagging service, Etikedo, to help organize … Read More
A number of Spanish online sources are reporting on a recent rumor, now confirmed by Isabel Aguilera,Google’s Managing Director in Spain and Portugal—Google is working on their own mobile phone. Google Phone? gPhone? Confirmed, right here in Spain. The news … Read More
Spanish is the third top spoken language in the World, yet a recent Accenture study found that the fact is no indication of it´s performance online. Lets look at the numbers Internet growth in Latin America and Spain just last … Read More
More fun domain disputes. If you’ve been following Multilingual Search for some time you may have read a story last year, about internationalizing the Chilean .cl domains. To summarize, it means that the .cl domains can use “ñ”, “ü” and … Read More
A very interesting post from Niall Kennedy about International Search, via OjoBuscador. This data is very interesting, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet. Gives great insight into the breakdown of interntional search. Take a look at the … Read More
Only a few days ago, another search engine was born in Spain. Migoa, a newborn multilingual search engine, currently in beta phase, aims to take away the hassle of broad search results, by scouting through countless results to deliver highly … Read More
Spain may not be the internet leader in a number of ways, but blogging is very big here. Commercial blogs are mushrooming, blogger conferences are all over the map, and recently, there was even a book published about Spanish blogging … Read More
An update to Nick’s previous article about Google’s recent wave of European Google Maps: Not only is Google Maps now available in Spain, but the Spanish version has some valuable local add-ons. On April 28th, Google’s newly appointed General Director … Read More
Certainly everyone is aware that the Spanish TPI (“Paginas Amarillas”—Spanish Yellow Pages) has been up for sale. Bidding came down to two major players, the British Yell telephone directories and Apax Partners and Cinven, a venture capital. On the 28th … Read More
Only a few days ago, several Spanish media players such as Cinco Dias, Baquia and El Pais Published articles about a new social search engine called Gennio. Not only does the engine sport an innovative line of services, but it … Read More
This piece of information might be slightly outdated, but it is nonetheless worth mentioning. On September 16th, I wrote about ICANN’s approval of the .cat top level domain (TLD). It was certainly a big deal. The decision to open way … Read More
In August, we discussed Chile’s move to internationalize the .cl domain, by allowing for non-english letters, such as “ñ”, “ü” and 7 other international characters. It was certainly an exciting step. But for global internet users and companies as a … Read More
There’s a new addition to Google Spain and this time it’s not yet another valuable service sprouting on the endless list of Google tools and gadgets. Google has signed on a new team player to take charge of its operations … Read More
