There are not a lot of alternatives if you want to do paid search advertising in Portugal. Basically you have two big players – Google Adwords with the lion’s share and Anúncios Sapo a very distant second. Now AEIOU, a portal which was recently bought by one of Portugal’s biggest
That will put Portugal in the top five best educational systems in the EU. Or at least that is the aim of Portugal’s Prime Minister José Socrates, for the next 3 years. Since taking charge of the Portuguese government, Socrates has pushed a 430 million euro technological update of the
Google Universal Search, the new “search model” recently launched by Google is starting to appear in the Portuguese SERPs (Google.pt). Until recently search results in Portuguese did not include anything more than simples websites. A couple weeks ago we noticed the appearance of “search suggestions” in the bottom portion of
Ydreams and Sapo announced a new product than allows users to access the Internet from home, without using a traditional computer system. The product is called “Sapohome” and it consists of a touch sensitive screen that allows access to information in a geographical context. This means that the user researches
RTP, the public TV broadcaster in Portugal has now in YouTube a partner to publish its videos online. RTP follows in the footsteps of other European TV broadcasters, like BBC and Deutsche Welle. In a dedicated YouTube area, users can access some of the most popular videos from many programs,
Sapo Maps, the Portuguese map service from Sapo.pt, now allows the users to plan itineraries, and choose different routing options (quicker, shorter, on foot). The user interface also improved over the last version, displaying a two column scheme, with much of the space available for the actual map data. AJAX
An ambitious project called MapMyName, launched by two graduate students from Aveiro University in Portugal, aims to map and subsequently count all the Internet users in the world. This is made possible, according to a video release in YouTube, due to a “recommendations system”. Every person who signs in, recommends
Hi5, one of the most successful web 2.0 sites in Europe, and one of the most visited sites in Portugal, chose Sapo, the most important entertainment portal in that country, as the search engine for its Portuguese users. Sapo replaces Google in both search and ads in Hi5. According to
The project, codenamed SecondUA intends to project the Portuguese University by being one of only 70 worldwide to establish a presence in Second Life. The University of Aveiro bought an island in Second Life and plans to divide it into six big areas, dedicated to online classes, study spaces and
The ongoing saga of the hostile takeover of PT (Portugal Telecom) by Sonae is finally over. In a meeting, the main PT stockholders voted against the takeover, and trusted the current board of directors with the mission to further expand the company, specially in the South American markets. At the