Portuguese who search for products of services online, spend in average €220. This is the main result of the first online buying behaviour study done by Google Portugal. In this study more than 2.000 people were asked for their online buying (and searching) habits. Other interesting conclusions were: People who
Google Analytics is now available in Portuguese. Google Analytics is a widely used web analytics tool, provided for free by Google and already used by many webmasters in Portugal. In October, Google had already announced that Google Sites – a tool for creating free sites online – was also available
Intel signed a deal with the Portuguese government in which they will provide experience and know how in the education market in order to put 500,000 small PCs in the hands of children with ages raging from 6 to 10 years old. The computers, named “Magalhães” in honour of the
The decision to allow anyone to register a .pt TLD has suffered yet another blow, as the authorization from the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology was postponed to an unknown future date. 6 months ago the request to liberalize the .pt TLD was proposed by the Foundation for National
A tv ad campaign for ZON (a cable operator that offers a triple play service) began airing the passed week on the main Portuguese tv networks. The campaign isn’t very out of the ordinary, but for one thing: it mentions a blog url . Here’s the concept: people who sign
It uses a black background and therefore offers great energy savings, because black uses less energy than white on computer monitors. Called Eco Find, it is interely Portuguese in the making, but it uses Google results.
In a global marketplace, companies struggle when it comes to providing the best content to local search engines, many times insisting in having a main .com website, that often does not appear in local product searches. There is no one solution to this problem, but, has a multi lingual SEO
As was announced by several SEM blogs and media, Google launched internationally the navigational links in their homepage. This was a feature previously only available in Google.com (US). The order of the links in the Portuguese version of Google (Google.pt) is now the following: Web | Images | News |
A recent study by a researcher at Brown University places Portugal in 7th place worldwide when it comes to best practices in e-government. This represents a 41 places rise over the result the country had obtained last year. The study analyzed 1687 sites in 198 countries, in all 5 continents.
It’s called e-Justice Centre and it represents a joint project of the Justice Department and Aveiro’s University, which already has a strong presence in Second Life. The Justice Department’s press release explains that the centre aims to be a place where Second Life residents can resolve conflicts that come about